Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income tax (1934) A self-proclaimed reactionary, he suspects all New Deal legislation, believes the Democratic recovery program is composed of "mere relief...
...Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported a United Press correspondent, "have demonstrated that the Panama Canal...
...rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie and Clyde.* But they did not bury them side by side, because Bonnie's mother objected. Their bodies lay in separate "funeral homes" while thousands of citizens filed past and they were put away in separate cemeteries, a mile apart. Said Bonnie...
Last week big-hearted William Meringer was in Dublin with his wife and two children, doing his level best to repay destiny. He told Dublin relief workers to round up 700 poor gossoons and colleens. These he sat down to a great dinner in the City Hall. The piece de resistance: hasenpfeffer...
...suicides, these War Babies have now-grown up. In Exile's Return Malcolm Cowley takes a good look at his literary generation, admits "it was an easy, quick, adventurous age, good to be young in; and yet on coming out of it one feels a sense of relief, as on coming out of a closed, smoky room too full of talk and people into the sunlight of the winter streets...