Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Luton, Eng., Feb. 7--Prime Minister, J. Hamany MacDonald, fighting a rising tide of criticism over his unemployment relief policy, was received with boos tonight...
...acting is so good that one cringes with rage at the doings of the mother who in her tantrums succeeds also in causing the death of her aged invalid mother. There is little to raise the play from the depths of morbid despair into which it falls. The comic relief provided by the grandmother comes at the wrong moments and the silly simperings of the giddy mother serve only to heighten the horrors of the household...
True, such projects as organized relief and the Tennessee power development point the way for the liberal element. Thus Upton Sinclair borrowed from Mr. Hopkins the concept of cooperative relief, and Norman Thomas admits his admiration of T.V.A. From this trend in time a fully developed party may spring, not necessarily a "red" organization, but quite possibly a powerful one, if it can appeal to the mass of Roosevelt supporters by going the President one better. And it is doubtful whether such eminent but capitalistic New Dealers as Messrs. Baruch, Richberg, and their friends will view such a move with...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was all ready last week for another one man show of the works of Gaston Lachaise, U. S.-naturalized French sculptor (TIME, July 23). Broad-beamed, long-haired, yet extremely high strung, Sculptor Lachaise finds emotional relief in modeling monstrous female figures with breasts like melons, hips like hills. Prize piece in last week's show was a 2,000 Ib. female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co., which went into the red when Russia stopped buying tractors, was pulled out late in 1933 by emergency relief road building and the Diesel engine. Earnings for 1934: $3,651,000 against...