Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spokesman for Andrew W. Mellon, as the close ally of Pennsylvania's manufacturer and bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President as "God's inspired servant." Even the belated and not altogether convincing support of Governor Pinchot for the G. 0. P. ticket could not save Senator...
...Stern, "has become a phobia, lacking humor, fairness and even a sense of reality." He reported a blizzard of anti-Sinclair pamphlets in Los Angeles. One showed a lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters...
...year ago this time the Federal Relief Administration was humming with great plans for taking care of the unemployed during the winter. President Roosevelt had just authorized a Civil Works program and Relief Administrator Hopkins was getting ready to provide CWA jobs for 4,000,000 jobless, to distribute the first CWA pay checks before Thanksgiving (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week, however, cold weather was almost upon the country and President Roosevelt had not yet made up his mind as to how he would handle this winter's relief problem...
...Denver, dissatisfied because the State relief administrator had cut the number of days of relief work provided for unemployed, 1,000 relief workers went on strike for his removal. After throwing the tools of nonstriking workers into the Platte River, some 300 strikers precipitated a riot when police arrested their leader...
Such disturbances were commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...