Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Report to Secretary Ickes from the $4,400,000 Boulevard Gardens job last week was enough to turn what is left of his hair snowy white. No work had been done for two months, cost of the building was mounting daily, idle workers were swelling relief rolls. Reason: carpenters and steam-fitters cannot agree who will cut recesses in the floors to lay steam pipes in the ten six-story buildings...
...encouraging that this should happen. Care should be taken, however, in applying these results to the country. Undergraduates represent chiefly the industrial class which is bearing the brunt of the new deal; the relief program, which will affect election returns, does not touch the student; and the issue is presented on November 6th through candidates, many of whom are Republican stuffed shirts. Above all, the sheltered existence of Harvard makes a student reflect political opinions, not develop them, and despite the value of the opinion of the observer, it does not count for much in politics...
...foundation of fact. We must be able to substantiate our opinions. A mere statement of opinion does not guarantee its right of existence as such, but it must be logical in itself and logical in its assumptions. For instance, the author in question says: "The Administration's Federal Relief system is an instance of a two sided affair." And he goes directly on to talk about charity and ethics, while we wait patiently but in vain for an exposition of the two sides. But by that time we have forgotten, too. However, it is an excellent example of his logic...
...Administration's Federal relief system is an instance of a two-sided affair. From one side it is excellent; the government is handing out charity to the helpless victims of an economic crisis; in fact one must say that it is hardly charity, but duty that causes the government to do this. But with national elections at hand the whole thing seems to resemble a great nation-wide system of bribery--it is legal, of course; but none the less the arrangement has the ear-marks of bribery--on the part of the Democratic Party to catch the votes...
...Digest poll. It begins to look as if the ability of Mr. Roosevelt as a politician has been overrated, if we consider the enormous number of people in the country who are sure to vote for him, for no other reason than because they are on Mr. Roosevelt's relief lists. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt is not a great politician but only a great evader of questions and issues and a great forgetter of campaign and Inaugural promises...