Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Wary Senate leaders outmaneuvered the economy bloc today and obtained a unanimous consent agreement for a vote at 3 P. M. tomorrow on the McKellar proposal to restore President Roosevelt's relief bill to its original figure...
...corporate unit that even a temporary resident must shoulder some of the responsibility for the welfare of the social group in which he spends a part of his time. To be sure members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization of the present campaign will make possible a more truly representative showing for Harvard, especially if the larger givers will divert their...
...House left off, the Senate prepared to begin. Chairman Adams of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the bill said that he thought the appropriation might be cut as low as $600,000,000. A dozen Senators were eager to cram the bill with amendments against politics in relief. While they were questioning Harry Hopkins about his fitness to be Secretary of Commerce, they got him to admit that if he had to do it again, he would not have made political speeches as head of WPA; that politics-playing WPA supervisors in Kentucky should have been "kicked...
...conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...
When Joseph Braddock, 76, father of ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, applied for relief in North Bergen, N. J., Boxer Braddock was chagrined. Said he: "He knows he can count...