Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth and seventh frames, Charlie Brackett took the mound with the sacks loaded and one out in the seventh and faced only eight batters in chalking up the last eight enemy put-outs. It was the second time in as many days that Brackett has turned in a stutter relief...
Last week in Columbus, John William Bricker sweated to send his first Legislature home with a record worthy of a Presidential prospect. His biggest chore: to get a $9,250,000 Relief appropriation passed without having to impose new taxes, which would violate his campaign pledges. His biggest asset, other than his own vigor and mien, is the fact that his predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board...
Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. WPA's head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich...
...chairman of the Clothing Division of the SPANISH REFUGEE RELIEF CAMPAIGN...
Declaring that "It is now apparent that opponents of the present relief policy of the government propose to center their attack on the Federal Arts Projects," it claims, "The Federal Arts Projects are the clearest and most characteristic expression of the policy of the government to give relief to the unemployed by giving work suitable to their experience and training...