Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief program for winter to take care of the normal winter unemployment which this year is due to add around 1,000,000 cases to the 4,000,000 which are already on relief rolls...
...Federal relief funds are allocated to a State until the State Relief Administrator has submitted a detailed report of the State's needs. Maine's report was late because State Administrator McDonough had been honeymooning. Day later his report was in Washington and Maine had been granted $598,000 for November relief. But G. O. Partisans had scored a (continued on p. 16) sufficiently important point to cause Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins to crack back...
Month ago at Boothbay Harbor, Me., John Anthony McDonough married a school teacher named Mildred Ernestine Reed. The bridegroom was an A. E. F. veteran, an Elk, an Eagle, the president of the Maine Association of Football Officials and, most important of all, the State Relief Administrator. Among the distinguished guests at his wedding was Louis J. Brann, who had just made Democratic history by being re-elected Governor of Maine. Home from their honeymoon last week, Mr. & Mrs. McDonough suddenly discovered that their marriage had also helped to make national history...
Just seven days before the election the Relief Administration in Washington announced the amounts which the Federal Government had allotted to the States for November: $2,000,000 for Alabama . . . $6,500,000 for California . . . $11,500,000 for Illinois . . . $18,900,000 for New York . . . $9,100,000 for Pennsylvania . . . $468,000 for Wyoming. Only one State was missing from the list of benefactions. It was Maine, where the election had already been held. In a flash the Republican campaign committee pounced on this fact...
...Again the New Deal administration convicts itself of the charge of using Federal relief funds for political purposes and as a substitute for a campaign fund. Curiously enough every State except Maine received a slice. Maine has already voted. Maine, under the Farley plan of Tammanyizing the country, manifestly is recorded as having had hers...