Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such an almost unlimited extent. In spite of their Americanism, which they loudly and self-righteously proclaim, the Legionaires would like to see the money in the Treasury portioned out to them in a manner more befitting a Roman holiday, than the efforts of a grateful government to give relief to its deserving and American protectors. But of course the Legionaires are no more the protectors of the credit of the United States than they are the protectors of the American Veterans Association or Soviet Russia or the National Economy League...
...administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill for a $5,000,000,000 bond issue to pay for a public works program. Following its defeat he continued to bark unceasingly at the Presidential heels for a positive relief program. Having lined up behind President Roosevelt, he sponsored but one notable piece of New Deal legislation: Senate Bill No. 3744, to set up a "Federal Monetary Authority" under which the Treasury would take
...morning soon grew hot. At mass, celebrated for half a million people at the great cross by the Bishop of Alicante, Spain, permission was given the men to wear their hats, the clergy their birettas. Since the women had been ordered to wear dark dresses and mantillas, the only relief that could be suggested was for them to move from their sunny benches into the shade. Few did, and during the mass 500 women...
Married. Grace Dodge, daughter of President Bayard Dodge of the American University of Beirut, Syria, granddaughter of the late Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, copperman (Phelps Dodge) and philanthropist who gave enormous War profits to Near East Relief and other benevolences; and John Bartow Olmsted II of Buffalo; in Riverdale...
...State production quota a violation of the Code-the clause on which the whole case hinged - was found to be missing from the original text signed by the President. New oil legislation will probably be presented to the next Congress but oil men are now looking for relief in other directions. Just before the end of the fourth extra session of the 43rd Texas Legislature, a bill was passed giving the Railroad Commission jurisdiction over refined oil as well as crude. The swaggering individualists of East Texas have learned that heating their nonquota oil placed it in the classification...