Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor to dramatize the Relief issue, Representative Keller of Illinois brought a display of WPA rations, a pitiably small pile of butter, prunes, etc., representing what one Reliefer gets in a week. He asked: "What would you do if you had to live on that...
...book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking...
...titles of the five tables are: I. "The United States and Latin American Relations;" II. "The United States' Policy Toward International Trade;" III. "Social Security and Relief;" IV. "Government and Transportation Problems;" and V. "Pressure Groups in a Democracy...
Undergraduates will act as chairmen of each of the tables, and the chairman of the Social Security and Relief table will be a student from Harvard...
...balancing the Budget will bring about recovery, then Congress can instantly do so by reducing expenditures to the level of receipts. . . . Such items as work-relief projects, CCC camps, roads and public works of all kinds, veterans' benefits, all farm benefit payments and national defense, some or all of these would have to be drastically curtailed...