Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen who have been screaming for relief from taxes, to the Republican Party-which has been crying for reduction in Federal spending, to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which wants to repeal the Wage-Hour Law-to all these and sundry other critics Franklin Roosevelt this week boomed his answer. In his best oratorical form, before the friendly American Retail Federation, he virtually defied all critics, announced that the New Deal would not give them an inch...
...straight relief as opposed to work relief: "I tell my visitor that never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
Solution: Leave things alone. "At $80,000,000,000 [national income] the income from the present taxes will be sufficient to meet expenditures on the present scale-and actually to reduce our relief appropriations...
Most people think of Rochester, N. Y. as a rich, solid city where Kodaks are made and music, subsidized by Eastman millions, flourishes. Rochester is also a sick city whose thousands of immigrant, unskilled unemployed compound the effects of Depression II. Dependent on Relief is one in five of Rochester's 330,000 citizens...
...Rochester Reliefer is Miss Mabel McFiggins. "I used to work in a button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm...