Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Make an emergency appropriation of $1,322,000,000 which the Administration needs for relief and PWA work before the next Congress convenes...
...Another was a message on War Debts, not demanding any important legislation, because the Senate would argue for weeks on that subject. A third was a message on "social" legislation-a new Labor Board, unemployment insurance, old age pensions for industry, a permanent housing program, a permanent system of relief for unemployed- topics too controversial to be acted on at this session but to which loyal Democratic Representatives up for re-election could point with pride during their autumn campaign...
...best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect up to 50% of what he earned when last employed. The average dole for an unemployed single man is seven francs...
...soldiers. The decrees promised: 1) Fewer ministers and public employes at lower salaries. 2) Stable municipal organizations with mayors appointed by the Government. 3) A balanced budget and creation of new sources of revenue. 4) Easier credit for farmers and artisans. 5) Lower prices and new markets. 6) Unemployment relief and restriction of child labor. 7) More education for the education-hungry Bulgarians. 8) Shorter and cheaper trials. 9) Recognition of Soviet Russia. 10) Redivision of Bulgaria into seven districts instead of 16 provinces. 11) A Parliament of 175 instead of 274 members, to be appointed by the Government...
...charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility was due to disease contracted in Africa or to a neurotic temperament. Before she finally collapsed she acted in three more pictures for independent producers. Since then she has been on Dr. Woodruff's hands. He is destitute. The Motion Picture Relief Fund contributes money for the young woman's support. Friends send baskets of food and money for medicine. Only time she leaves her room is when she is carried or wheeled to a beach. Always, indoors or out, she wears a veil over her eyes. Her doctor-father...