Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words come from Calvin Coolidge no one would have been startled. From Franklin Roosevelt who is seeking a $4.000,000,000 work relief appropriation-outside the budget-they sounded mildly grotesque. But they meant two things...
After 17 long days in the Senate Appropriations Committee the President's bill giving him $4,000,000,000 for work relief plus $880,000.000 to continue present relief programs, saw the light of the Senate floor. Carter Glass, who in Committee had voted unsuccessfully to cut it down to a $2,880,000,000 dole, as Appropriations Chairman dutifully expounded its purpose. When he had finished, Senator Borah inquired...
...Washington consensus that the banking bill had been speeded to Congress to divert Senator Glass from his attack on the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief Bill. Certainly the banking bill was cleared by the White House so quickly that Governor Eccles did not have a chance to show it to the peppery little Virginia Senator in advance as he had promised. Senator Glass was hopping mad at what he considered a deliberate White House slight and took it out on Governor Eccles, accusing him of breaking his word. Governor Eccles hastily telephoned the Senator, explained that President Roosevelt...
...followers found that exile was not the pinnacle of glory he had suggested it might be. One after another they quarreled, struck attitudes, were glad to go, until only two trusted followers were left. After five years of it even they, though they shed tears, sighed with relief when a stomach ulcer at last gave their master eternity, themselves and their jailers release...
Washington. Feb. 17--The nation's business leaders tonight threw their support behind a move by rebellions Senate Democrats to clip $2,000,000,000 (B) from the $4.880,000,000 (B) appropriation demanded by President Roosevelt for relief and his jobs-for-all program...