Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first adviser to arrive was Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Direct relief was not his problem, but more & more the Administration has come to think of relief in terms of stimulating the construction industry. He went to Warm Springs on the heels of a fight with Secretary Ickes over whether PWA's desire to build low-cost housing with Government money would scare private capital from entering Mr. Moffett's housing scheme (TIME...
Prime points on which they were, in the main, agreed: 1) WTork relief in some form should be devised as a substitute for the outright dole. 2) Substantial Government spending must continue to provide enough "reflation" to keep business from laying off more employes. 3) Al- though many billions might be bandied about in headline talk, actual expenditures must not be fantastic. 4) Something effective must be done to put the construction industry back on its feet, thereby re-employing some...
...Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan does not like to think of itself as a mere repository for modern U. S. paintings. From its fat endowment it has bought throughout Depression far more pictures than it needed or could show as the kindest, most practical form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year they...
...Calamity Relief. "In the fall of 1931, came the Great Yangtze flood which affected an area of 70,000 square miles inhabited by 25,000,000 people. Something like 140,000 persons were drowned and crops worth $900,000,000 lost. To meet this calamity a National Flood Relief Commission was established to furnish relief to those suffering from the flood, and to provide for the repair of the broken dykes, and the building of them upon such a higher, larger, and stronger scale, that future floods might be prevented. Much foreign financial aid was sent to China at this...
...Giants lost $80,000. Since then they have made money almost every year, won the championship in 1927. In 1930 they raised over $115,000 for Unemployment Relief in a game against the Notre Dame Alumni. In addition, they have helped Owner Mara to enter sidelines like coal, liquor-importing (Timara Whiskey), fight promoting. In 1926 Owner Mara paid West Point's famed back Gene Vidal, now U. S. Director of Air Commerce, $100 to play for 15 minutes in a Florida exhibition game. He has set the fashion in hiring highly-publicized college stars, done more than any other...