Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face the day either when their weapons of destruction must be used against their neighbors or when an unsound economy, like a house of cards, will fall apart." To get as much virtue as he could out of his new necessity, Mr. Roosevelt last week explored ways of putting Relief money and workers into rearmament work...
Dependable Captain Lupion and Fred Heckel are well established in the guard positions, but Charley Lutz is the only standout forward. Contor Bill Humos will need some relief in the hard games to come, and this must come from either Hemer Peabody or Sam White. At least four men have a chance to get the other forward job, but at present the speedy and accurate shooting Legg holds a slight edge...
Voters passed judgment with respect to sit-down strikes, court-packing, politics-in-relief. They implied their impatience with the delay of Recovery, with executive experimentation, with continued deficit financing. Chastised most emphatically by the general defeat of zealous New Dealers was the end-justifies-the-means attitude expressed by Harry Hopkins when he said, in an excited private argument with friends at the Empire City race track in October: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect...
...General Hugh Johnson been in Elmer Andrews' shoes, however, hell would surely have popped and dead cats would have passed each other in midair. For far and wide, U. S. businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether...
...into custody. The same was done in certain other German cities. With many Jewish breadwinners torn from their families, with many of those families hungry, Der An griff, personal organ of Dr. Goebbels, coldly noted: "Noticeably large is the number of Jewish women with many children who ask for relief. . . . Our laws give even a foreigner the right to relief...