Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congressional horizon as President Roosevelt renews his campaign for an additional $150,000,000 for the W.P. A. Threat of a party split in House and Senate makes the issue one of the most important facing Congress with New Deal forces concentrating on the continuation of the relief program while a militant Republican minority allied with the Anti New Deal Democrats demands a reduced budget regardless is its effect on the delicately balanced relief structure...
...opposition maintains that the President's requested appropriation is greater than the relief need caused by the recent European crisis and the New England hurricane. To refute this argument, Representative Cannon of Missouri made eloquent use of statistics: "The appropriation of $875,00,000 recommended by the Budget will keep 3,081,000 men at work," he said. "The appropriation of $725,000,000 recommended by the committee will employ only 1,930,000. In other words, the committee proposes to throw out of employment, in the dead of winter, 1,151,300 men... It is not necessary to draw...
Whether or not the president's relief program has benefited the nation only history can say, But to prevent the impoverishment and demoralization of more than a million Americans, the immediate endorsement of President Roosevelt's recommendation is essential. As in the case of Lincoln's Civil War policy, the emergency relief program for 1939 will be gravely imperiled by any interference within the fiscal year. If it so desires, Congress will have ample time to "swap horses" when it gets to the other side of the stream...
Maiden Taft. The Independent Offices bill came up in the Senate and Colorado's spunky Adams, victor in the Relief economy fight (TIME, Feb. 6), sought to prevent restoration of $17,206,000 for construction of TVA dams at Watts Bar and Gilbertsville on the Tennessee River, which had been stricken out by the House. Mr. Adams' efforts were reinforced by Ohio's tall, squinty Robert Alphonso Taft, the new Senator of noble name and nominal fame in current Presidential polls, who had chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor...
...books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale students studying research. Then its 150 savants and their disciples donned white coats and set to work studying such things as crime, disease, unemployment, war depression, adolescents' speech defects, people's reactions to relief and to parking tickets...