Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enthusiasm for his favorite relief project took President Roosevelt to the Department of Commerce building one morning last week to inspect an exhibit of subsistence homesteads and other forms of local selfhelp. Set up in the auditorium were models of homesteads, samples of co-operative-made furniture, rugs, tools, quilts, etc. Before he left the White House the President had not intended to make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium...
...went on to explain what he meant by planning-instead of giving direct cash relief to unemployed and stranded populations, set them up in occupations and surroundings where they can support themselves. "The Government is rich enough to accomplish this. We need to make these people self-sustaining. We are not going to take them by force or against their wills out of one community and transplant them to another. By using grey matter-Brain Trust or otherwise-we are going to make these experiments so attractive and successful that more people will apply than can be handled...
...have no hesitation in saying that the relief which would confer the most direct benefit to the country and have the greatest psychological effect and impart the most immediate stimulus to trade and employment would be a reduction in the standard rate of the income...
Reading eyes grow blurred, skip words and lines. Heads ache, nerves twitch, stomachs misbehave. Students fail in their classes. Motorists and aviators misjudge distances, sometimes fatally. Many a person so afflicted has gone from one eye doctor to another, without relief. He was suffering from no ailment known to ophthalmology...
...Davison Rockefeller at Ormond Beach, Fla. When Adelbert Ames Jr. set out to track down aniseikonia in 1927, it was John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who furnished the money. Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported the fact that Son Rockefeller himself has aniseikonia, that he has obtained considerable relief from his iseikonic spectacles...