Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watching history take shape, will find it difficult to estimate the relative importance of the forces which gave the New Deal such an overwhelming victory at the polls on Tuesday. The personal popularity of the President was not enough. Neither can one say blithely that the political use of relief rolls was the only cause...
...basic problem today is unemployment. Roosevelt, in office for more than a year and a half, has failed as yet to bring substantial relief to those out of work. Disregarding Utopian ideas of perpetual government support of the unemployed, it is safe to say that private corporations must take up the large number of men now idle. The government can't do it all forever. Under the capitalistic system companies refuse to hire men unless they see the possibility of making a profit. Yet to date, the administration has deprecated the profit motive as a guide to business activity...
...Roosevelt's prime political purposes since the Congressional campaign throughout the land moved to the front page of the newspapers. Although a new tax program is well in the making at the Treasury, not a word has been officially said as to where the levies will fall. Although Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is straining to perfect relief plans for the coming winter, nothing has been definitely revealed of how many billions he will spend or in what manner. Plans for NRA's reorganization are being pushed forward-in official obscurity. Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell had been discreetly...
...What cast G. O. Partisans down, though, was not this shortage of money but their opponents' unlimited wealth. To most Republican stumpsters the Democratic campaign chest this year is the U. S. Treasury. The New Deal has promised and paid over $2,000,000,000 in relief to some 4,000,000 families. It is distributing hundreds of millions to farmers under AAA, billions under PWA contracts. It has put 100,000 new political officeholders on the Federal payroll. Lest these benefactions be forgotten the Democratic National Committee has compiled a list of the New Deal's cash...
...known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them in the intrigue-poisoned Royal Palace...