Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserve consists of 75% gold and 25% silver. Railroad Pensions, for all railway employes above 65. Employes will contribute one-third, railroads two-thirds to the retirement fund. Communications Commission to rule telephone, telegraph, radio and cable companies. Deficiency Appropriations, providing $1,715,000,000 for unemployment and drought relief. This list of one week's accomplishments would have been enough for an entire session of many another Congress. It was not enough for the 73rd whose second session will be remembered for: ¶Dollar devaluation. ¶Compulsory limitation of the cotton crop to 10,000,000 bales...
...biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes down...
...wheat embargo, his mortgage moratorium. When taunted by his enemies for a 5% levy on the wages of all State job holders, Governor Langer candidly replied that the contributions were necessary to the life of the G. O. P. In addition to being Governor, William Langer was also State relief administrator. When Federal Relief Administrator Hop kins learned that CWA workers were expected to subscribe to Governor Langer's political organ, the weekly Leader, he re moved the Governor from the local relief administration. Soon after, charges were filed that the Governor, as a Federal employe, had solicited party...
...Roosevelt signed the Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. The exact minute of enactment was important because the new law instructed Federal judges to consider all bankruptcy petitions in the order received. The President wanted each & every prostrate U. S. corporation to have the same opportunity to rise and pray for cheap relief...
First to pray for cheap relief in Washington was National Press Building, erected in the 1928 boom which Halsey...