Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is helping to support some 16,000,000 men, women and children who cannot support themselves by private labor. Tomorrow Administrator Hopkins may find himself supporting millions more who have deliberately thrown up good jobs to let the Federal Government give them their daily bread...
When the United Textile Workers announced that they would go on strike with less than $1,000,000 in their treasury to provide strike benefits for 300,000 strikers, their leaders intimated that, of course, the Relief Administration would feed them. Manufacturers promptly emitted a deep and throaty growl at Government-financed strikes. Last week before going to consult with the President at Hyde Park, Mr. Hopkins did his best to still this protest. Said...
...Anyone who thinks that the Government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head. . . . There was a rumor that got back to me that I was going to allot money to the unions for strike relief. ... In the last 15 months appropriations made because of strikes, in excess of our regular grants, have been almost negligible. The facts of this are illustrated in the recent California strike, where we have evidence that the number of strikers who applied for relief was only...
Amid vast relief, Herr Hitler made short work of pretending to read the scrolls. A Saar spokesman keynoted that the years since the Saar was placed under League rule have been a "pilgrimage of pain." Then the Realmleader launched into his speech...
...Author. Born in 1896, Robert Littell is the great grandson of Eliakim Littell, who founded The Living Age in 1844. His father, Philip Littell, helped found The New Republic. Robert Littell left Harvard to enlist in the American Ambulance Corps, served as secretary to Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration after the War. He has been on the staff of The New Republic, was dramatic critic on the New York Evening Post, the old World. His first book, Read America First, was published in 1926. Candles in the Storm is his second...