Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON-President Roosevelt today rebuked Congress for slashing $150,000,000 from his emergency relief budget and asked, in the name of "human decency," that the legislators restore the cut to stave off hardship and privation among 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 people...
...said in a special message that the $725,000,000 appropriation which the Congressional economy blocs forced through over his objections, was inadequate to meet human needs and that unless it is supplemented, 1,500,000 works progress employees will have to be dropped from the relief rolls by the end of June...
According to CCC thinking, the juniors are "the corps." Of them, 66.75% in 1938 came from Relief families; another 29% from families "below a normal or average standard of living"; 3% had no families. Three per cent were completely illiterate...
...gone through grammar school; only 11% had finished high school. In age, 59.47% were 17 or 18. Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments...
...necklace, a happy marriage, and the Yacht Club Boys. From any technical point of view, the picture is worthless; but for a tired Harvard man, just having staggered through a bitter examination period and not inclined to be critical, the very inanity of the whole should prove a welcome relief...