Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling to smooth the feathers of a very ruffled Democrat, asking the aid of Carter Glass to prevent the liberals of the Senate from forcing the New Deal considerably farther Left than Franklin Roosevelt was ready to go. When the President sent his $4,000,000.000 work relief bill to Congress he did not consult Senator Glass. When it got to the Senate Appropriations Committee, he did not confer with Chairman Glass. Instead he kept Senator Byrnes-sardonically referred to by Mr. Glass as "the real Chairman of the Committee"-running to the telephone to confer on Franklin Roosevelt...
...proposal that under his $4,000,000,000 work relief program, relief wages should be well below prevailing wages in industry so as not to compete with business for the services of labor...
...first two years of the New Deal were, from an economic point of view, no smashing success. NRA, AAA, $4,000,000,000 a year in emergency expenditures, dollar devaluation, all had been tried but some 5,000,000 families still remained on relief. The Government's financial credit could not stand such a strain indefinitely. Nor could the Administration's political credit. A new economic order might be set up by a five-year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than...
...Work Relief. In the Senate Appropriations Committee the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief bill, rubber-stamped by the House under gag rule, was receiving its first critical appraisal. The Committee fought in miniature the battle that will be refought on the Senate floor: between 1) Conservatives who oppose handing the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double...
...accused the PWA of lowering the purchasing power of the nation and being too slow for effective relief. Nor was he more optimistic concerning the new public works program. "At best" he said. "It is a dubious experiment. Many cities cannot and are not willing to carry the entire burden of the new program, and the $12.50 weekly alloted to each family is little better than a dole...