Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: Power Trust investigation (1928), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1929, 1930, 1933), Hoover Moratorium (1931), Bonus (1932, 1933, 1934), Relief (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), Copper Tariff (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Repeal (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934). Stock Exchange Control (1934), 16-to-1 Silver Amendment (1934)., Overriding Philippine Independence Veto...
...afternoon chat with Postmaster General Farley, the President learned that state Democratic leaders were complaining because in some Republican districts G. O. P. officials were playing politics with Federal relief money. To the Press the President frankly remarked that the Democrats were equally guilty with the Republicans...
Fortnight ago Federal Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins privately asked Dr. Lewis Andrew Hopkins of Tacoma, Wash., his eldest brother, how it happened that he was running for nomination as coroner of Pierce County on the Republican ticket. Last week Brother Lewis stopped celebrating his nomination long enough to answer publicly: "Why, the only other political job Harry ever had was under a Republican Administration. That was when he was in charge of widows' pensions in the City of New York under John Purroy Mitchel. I just wanted to be in a position to give Harry...
...that the organization has been actively spending its funds to combat Fascism, chiefly in Germany and Austria. Mr. Citrine refused to say how much the T. U. C. has spent in Germany. In Austria, he declared. ?44,000 ($220,000) has been spent for "relief" and ?46.000 in fighting the Austrian Nazis...
...University gymnasiums. None of them would have been there, and no one can say what would have happened to their creators, if it had not been for Depression and the New Deal. After 20 months of existence, the Free Adult Schools conducted in New York City by Federal Emergency Relief Administration in co-operation with State and City Boards of Education, were showing what they had accomplished...