Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington, Federal Reserve Governor Eccles, Comptroller General McCarl, Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse Jones, Tennessee Valley Authoritarian Arthur Ernest Morgan, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, National Industrial Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations Board's Francis Biddle, National Emergency Council's Donald Richberg, Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Joseph H. Choate Jr. Tail-enders in precedence...
...snows that used to lie on the lawns of executive mansions as unsullied as January white sales will be printed all over with the dark footsteps of the unemployed. To be inaugurated Governor in almost any state will mean but one thing: the burden of growing demands for relief, of falling revenues, of citizens' appeals for tax relief, of a bare treasury requiring more taxes...
...Governor of South Dakota faces the fact that some 35% of his constituents are on relief. The Governors of New Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Utah and North Dakota must provide relief for 20% to 25% of their people. The most fortunate of all Governors, in New Hampshire and Vermont, count more than one out of 20 of their people destitute. Yet the new year's grief for Governors will consist less of the magnitude of unemployment than the lack of means for providing relief...
...Relief Bills, The Federal Government, which in 1933 shouldered 60% of the costs of relief and in 1934 shouldered approximately 70%, has definitely decided to reverse this trend in 1935. Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins is demanding that the states assume a larger share of the relief burden. The states, however, will not resume a burden they gave up; they will be asked to assume a much larger burden than they ever bore...
...Kenny, who last week had what looked like an unbeatable lead for the Millar money, is a French-Canadian. She and her husband, Matthew, are now on public relief. In twelve years of marriage they have had 14 children, including three sets of twins. Only five children are living. There should be six. The poverty-stricken Kennys occupy a rat-infested house. Last year a rat killed their yearling son Patrick...