Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief reduction: $3,000,000 instead of $5,000,000 for New England hurricane relief. † Permanently Unbalanced Budget. **The national debt at last week...
Depression I pulled him into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
Shortly before Christmas, Wal sent several hundred unemployed out into London's Oxford Circus to dramatize their appeals for employment on public works and an increase in winter relief allowances. Suddenly tossing themselves on the ground like so many Holy Rollers, they tangled traffic into an unholy mess. Two days later he sent some of his roughest members into one of London's smoothest spots, the Ritz. He almost got a coffined umbrella labeled HE DID NOT GET WINTER RELIEF into No. 10 Downing Street...
...estimated that more than 50% of those applying for pensions will be taken from the Federal relief list. . . . It will make possible the balancing of the Budget...
Much the same sense of relief was evident last week after the Dictator finished his annual Reichstag address (TIME, Feb. 6). Because he announced no troop movements, made no mention of forthcoming invasions and delivered his address in rather more subdued tones than usual, many correspondents, editorial writers, even statesmen called the speech "mild." Those who took the trouble to wade through the long, formless address, however, discovered that it was actually one of the most sensational and threatening talks ever made by the head of a State. Excerpts...