Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief was the problem discussed with Executive Director Donald Richberg of NEC, Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell and FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins...
...President got a big laugh, but serious Otis Moore was at pains to point out to reporters that, for fear of embarrassing the President, he had sought no government agricultural benefits. Said he: "I will not even let the Negroes who live on the land apply for relief...
...have been obtainable almost any month of the year, any day of the month, but the time when pictures are wanted is when there is text to go with them. Editors knew that the text was arriving: accounts of below freezing temperatures; William Green's assertion that "our relief problem this winter is the most serious this nation has ever faced"; the appropriation by New York City of its biggest relief budget ($19,000,000) for any month during Depression; an estimate by Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins that nearly 5,000,000 families will be on his rolls...
Another good text for breadline pictures was the fact that Warm Springs, Ga. was last week swarming with the suppliers of the lumber from which President Roosevelt will build his 1935 relief structure. Big problem was how much money to spend and where...
...spending by Congress, to give a semblance of recovery. The President's advisers, both those who believe in giving business a chance and those who believe that the Government should run far ahead of business, went down to Warm Springs to help make the Administration's big relief plan. And the President sat ex officio in the conference, for he would toss their well-laid plans either 1) to Congress for adoption, or 2) to the wastebasket for oblivion...