Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clintonville, Wis. persons unnamed invited contributions of 15? a week for a ''society to give relief to folks hearing about other folks getting from $1 to $50 every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...
...20th Century for the old New York Herald. As the money Foxy earned dwindled, Cartoonist Schultze moved down the scale of Manhattan rooming houses, drew gym class posters for the Y. M. C. A., passed out little pictures of Foxy to neighborhood kids. Several years ago he went on relief, for a time was put to work interviewing job applicants at an employment agency...
...Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns sighed with relief. But Pennsylvania's miners still sing about them...
...Most addicts start using drugs in their late twenties, but addiction may occur at any age. Physicians frankly admit they are stumped by the cause of addiction, generally attribute it to a desire for excitement. Relatively few persons have become addicted through use of medicines for relief of pain...
...term reaction, considerably accentuated by the fact that Americans do not like depressions. Finally, the repudiation is not generally that of liberal New Deal principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed relief. What has been repudiated are the spending-lending program, the radically left-wing leanings of the administration, and its efforts to forge a nation-wide Tammany...