Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt gave the nation another of his Sunday night radio "fireside" chats, his first since June. None of the other five was more important to him and his listeners than this one. To give his manuscript a final polish he took Secretary Morgenthau and Relief Administrator Hopkins for a Sunday cruise down the Potomac...
...them for over a decade. As for this country, I stand or fall by my refusal to accept as a necessary condition of our future a permanent army of unemployed..... I do not want to think that it is the destiny of any American to remain permanently on relief rolls...
...states of the South which never could become extravagant. Even in the best of times the teachers there were underpaid and the school facilities inadequate. Unless the government comes to their aid, these schools will this year be able to provide terms of only a few weeks. And with relief funds flowing in such golden streams it would indeed seem wise to divert but a portion to this emergency in the most noble cause of youth...
...workings of the educational division of the FERA. Disturbed by the fact that college enrollments have dropped in the last few years while the number of high school graduates has risen, Washington last winter determined to help boys and girls of good scholastic standing to continue their studies. The relief administration therefore made $13,500,00 available to aid students who are working, or who would work, their way through college. Beginning this fall, it is employing several thousand at 30 cents an hour on projects of an educational character...
...Forgotten Man whom the President desired to help. But has he? Has the effect of legislation advocated by the Administration been to reduce his taxes? Has it not had precisely the opposite effect? Have not the taxes of the Forgotten Man--the backbone of the country -- been increased? Relief is being given to certain classes of farmers in the form of receipts from processing taxes which are collected in the last analysis from the Forgotten Man, Relief is being given to large capitalists through Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loans with the hope that they will seep down to the Forgotten...