Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zephyr was able to make its record breaking run and Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor's Fast Sirs: My friends have been having a jolly time about the little reference you made to our experiment on the relief diet [TIME, May 21]. . . . We were simply trying out the regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this city went on the City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those...
...addition to signing the Stock Exchange Regulation bill and handing one of the pens to Ferdinand Pecora, signing a new Corporate Bankruptcy bill, asking Congress for $525,000,000 for drought relief, signing two Federal crime bills, asking Congress to give Haiti left-over equipment of the U. S. Marines there and planning the wind-up of the session with House & Senate leaders, President Roosevelt went cruising down the Potomac last week on the Sequoia. With him went two baskets crammed full of official papers-each paper a problem. The President was tired, mentally and physically. But there could...
Party Achievements: "On the side of relief we have extended material aid to millions of our fellow citizens. . . . On the side of recovery we have helped to lift agriculture and industry from a condition of utter prostration. . . . WTe have determined to safeguard these tasks by rebuilding many of the structures of our economic life and of reorganizing it in order to prevent a recurrence of collapse...
...Relief. Plenty of animals were starving, but as yet few people. That would come later. The great summer drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation...
Died. James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., 64, Governor of California; of a miocardiac disease resulting in kidney complications and congestion of the lungs; on a ranch near San Jose, Calif. Born in San Francisco, he gained fame and friends by organizing relief work after the 1906 earthquake and fire, became Mayor in 1911, served until elected Governor 20 years later. With a political flair similar to that of his friend "Jimmy" Walker, onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought...