Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hymns were "Be Strong" and "Oh, Master, Let Me Walk with Thee." Whereupon, dropping the administrative lethargy which had spread gloom through Washington for weeks, and reasserting his political strength, the master of the White House persuaded the Senate to walk once more with him. His 4.88-billion-dollar Relief Bill was brought back from the purgatory of Committee, whither it had been sent last month after the addition of the McCarran "prevailing wage" amendment had made the measure wholly unacceptable to the President...
Voting down (50-to-38) a second introduction of the McCarran proposal to pay the wages of the private building industry to workers on public projects, the Senate substituted an amendment giving the President "discretionary control" of relief pay except on Federal building projects. The horse trade which effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that...
...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
...anyone desiring an objective picture of the post-war decade, with its cant, its hypocrisy, its lack of any workable standard, its deification of Mammon, and its half-hearted efforts to achieve peace. The picture is doubly effective when drawn with Mr. Sheean's clarity, and thrown into bold relief by his painstaking and often courageous search for truth...
Washington, March 21--The Senate today rejected an amendment by Senator William E. Borah, to the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill designed to revive the anti-trust laws suspended under the National Industrial Recovery...