Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been constructed give serious cause for alarm. The devaluation of the dollar, the flotation of large bond issues, and the government's appropriation of the gold reserve all tend to undermine credit. With this money the government has often spent five dollars to give one dollar of relief. Evidently the four dollar discrepancy ensures a vote for the new deal. Such haphazard spending will not bring about a utopia where everyone is satisfied; it will land us on the rocks of chaos...
Albany, N.Y., Nov. 1--New York hunger marchers, badly battered in a clash with police, "dug in" tonight, determined to march on the Capitol and force Governor Herbert H. Lehman to meet their relief demands...
...second time Tommy Bilodeau was given a full day at quarter, in both the signal drill and scrimmage lineups. Hitherto George Ford has been Bob Haley's relief at quarter, but it now seems certain that Bilodeau has supplanted Ford as the number two brain truster while Ford has become a leading candidate on the left half squad...
Beliefs: He "recognizes the necessity for providing relief for property owners and favors such legislation as will make this possible." Note: also states that "no man, woman, or child in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be either cold or hungry." To Mr. Curley those two platforms seem completely reconcilable; to the Committee...
Consisting of two Russian-built cars patterned on those in Manhattan's subway, the "first train," said Associated Press Correspondent Charles Stephenson Smith, "was hailed with great joy by a population eagerly awaiting relief from overcrowded surface transportation...