Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Dakota. Last summer popular Republican Governor William Langer was sentenced to prison, ousted from office for forcing Federal relief workers to contribute to his political support (TIME, July 30, et ante). In November the Republicans split with the result that a small-town newspaper editor named Thomas Hilliard Moodie was elected second Democratic Governor in the State's history...
...public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt's onetime law partner). Finally he declared the whole...
...Betterton the stern official Santa Claus of some 17,000,000 subjects of George V. Said Santa Betterton. "We are setting up no soulless machine. ... If the jobless man has been fortunate enough to save any money, he is not expected to consume his savings before being entitled to relief...
Having seen to the last detail of their preparations for a gala performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Civic Theatre, officials of the Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When...
...more interest in men than in books. In an effort to make himself more presentable, Vridar joined a fraternity, went out for football, but he could not make himself a conformist. In the summer he and Xeloa hired themselves out on a ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army, a disappointment when the Armistice came before he was sent overseas. The War over, he got a job in a garage, slipped-gradually into bootlegging, rubbed shoulders with a seedy underworld. When one night he almost "killed his infant...