Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders to a program whose stated objective is the reemployment of idle millions. Granted that in this process there may be infractions of the notorious Section 7a, granted also that wages may fall to rise as fast as labor...
...December he would broadcast a "fireside" talk to the nation laying down his relief and agricultural policies for national acceptance before Congress assembled. Undersecretary of State Phillips was making new overtures to Premier Bennett of Canada. The New Deal Congress would be expected this time to approve the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty. The White House was very definitely against currency inflation...
Last week President Roosevelt named as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board a onetime Republican who, eight days before Herbert Hoover left the White House, urged upon a Senate committee a recovery program which today can hardly be distinguished from the New Deal. Recommending big relief grants to the States, a $2,500,000,000 public works outlay, domestic allotment farm relief, high income and inheritance taxes, unification of the banking system and government regulation of the securities business, the witness smiled at the startled Senators and remarked: "I'm a capitalist...
Having heard from all interested U. S. colleges & universities, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins last week announced the terms and amount of the college cut of Federal relief funds for this year. Amount was $1,414,940 per month. It will go to 94,331 students in 1,466 institutions. Each college will receive $15 per month per student up to 12% of its enrollment. It must certify that aided students could not otherwise be in college. A student must do useful work around campus or community, may thereby earn up to $20 per month...
...absence of effective international government, the mad race in naval armaments can be checked only through the political pressure of enlightened public opinion. It is essential, therefore, that naval appropriations should be completely divorced from relief expenditures and be presented to the public in their true character as increases in armaments...