Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manfully chopped $25,000,000 of rivers & harbors pork, $25,000,000 of flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks, voted the $50,000,000 back...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., which is running the Rochester experiment, normally buys food direct from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from satisfied with its own system. So are retailers, who complain that the farm-to-stomach route cuts them out of much business...
...foods, stocked and sold by the grocer in the usual way, at prevailing prices, which the U. S. Government has to pay when it redeems blue stamps. If Milo Perkins' plan works well enough to be spread over the U. S., its advantages will be that it balances Relief diets, stimulates the food trade, moves more farm produce through ordinary channels than FSCC could move through its artificial drains...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
...locally administered systems of medical care for the indigent, suggested that only States "in actual heed" be given Federal grants to help their indigents. Moreover, the Committee insisted that States give their "medical indigents" cash benefits to pay doctors' bills, and abandon the custom of paying doctors through relief agencies. This would preserve for physicians the privilege of adjusting the size of their bills...