Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interesting social experiment in the U. S., Reedsville comprises a 1,017-acre community of some 350 hand-picked "white Americans." Majority of them have been living on relief funds since 1926 in miners' hovels at nearby Scots' Run. Once the property of Col. John Fairfax of Virginia, whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special...
...Roosevelt Administration recently decided to spend, in addition to $2,700,000 already voted, $7,540,000 to take a simultaneous census of the unemployed. Secretaries Roper, Wallace, Ickes and Madam Secretary Perkins all urged the change. So did Census Director Austin, General Johnson, Relief Administrator Hopkins. They had excellent reasons...
...numbers, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed have never been accurately known. Without such knowledge relief funds cannot be spent intelligently, public works cannot be spread where they will do the most good, NRA cannot calculate how much reduction in the work week is necessary to sop up the puddles of joblessness. More important, the Administration cannot lay a sound plan tor unemployment insurance such as President Roosevelt recommended last week...
Perspiring with relief, Fascist squad leaders aloft called a truce with the antiFascists and all crawled to safety. By this time half the audience had fled. Jews considered that Sir Oswald in the windup of his speech touched a new high in British antiSemitism. He twitted the Conservative Party for "following the ideals of Disraeli, an Italian Jew,''- lambasted British Socialists (i. e. Laborites) for their "loyalty to Karl Marx, a German Jew" and polished off the Liberal Party by referring sarcastically to one of its Jewish leaders as "that staunch John Bull, Sir Herbert Samuel!" "Down with...
...said he hoarsely for the 343rd time. He pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his brow, turned to the diploma hander. "Nearly finished?" he whispered. "Almost," whispered the diploma hander. Finally the 386th & last student bobbed up, got his handshake, his grin, his congratulation, his diploma. Sighing relief, Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan sat down...