Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration tried to push the bill through in a hurry. For that reason an $880,000,000 deficiency appropriation for FERA was added to the $4,000,000,000 with the warning that if the bill was not passed by Feb. 10, FERA would be out of funds, all relief would end. Opponents of the bill obligingly offered to separate and pass the deficiency appropriation. The Administration declined. But the Committee was not to be hurried. Last week Feb. 10 came and went, and relief did not end-Mr. Ickes, rummaging in his desk, had found a stray...
Thus the first issue was settled: the Senate would not be hurried, would fight the matter out. In committee the Conservatives just missed victory when an amendment to substitute the dole for work relief failed by a tie vote; the Liberals won a temporary victory by a 12-to-8 vote to boost relief wages to prevailing rates; the Inflationists lost on a greenback amendment. But these were inconclusive skirmishes, to be refought in the Senate. Despite opposition only a major accident was likely to upset the Administration's plans because 1) its bill is in effect a compromise...
...compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...
Husbands Shumsky and Sarmatiuk declined to give up their families. Mr. & Mrs. Shumsky took themselves off to a farm. Mr. Sarmatiuk said he was pondering going on relief. Commented sympathetic Ukrainian neighbors: "Poverty in the priesthood has less appeal than lay poverty, with a family for company...
...only one-half as many matrices (type molds) for zeros as there are for the letter "e." Ordinarily that supply is ample for run-of-mill newspaper copy. But since the New Deal, newspaper copy has been anything but ordinary. It deals glibly in millions, billions of Federal appropriations, relief expenditures, debts, tax receipts, budget estimates. A dozen lines of a Washington dispatch may contain close to 100 ciphers...