Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before the entrance of formalized government work in the field of social security and relief problems, the machine was at best a palliative. "It worked by hook or by crook. Its rehabilitative influence was accidental rather than purposeful; being essentially a means to an organizational end, it met despondency in a haphazard way, coping with immediate aspects as they presented themselves...
...correspondents as also planned for the New Year by Germany's rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more-drastic-than-ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories, banks, wholesale houses. For the Third Reich's 500,000 Jews, half on relief, the new decree will mean certain pauperdom...
...most delicate and stubborn surgical problems is the relief of pain in childbirth. Injection of synthetic, cocaine-like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
Last week in Manhattan, at the 17th Annual Congress of Anesthetists new, safe drugs for relief of labor pains were enthusiastically discussed by Drs. S. Le Roy Sahler, chief of anesthesia in the Rochester, N. Y. General Hospital, Peter Graffagnino, head of the gynecology department of Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, and Louis Wralter Seyler of Commerce, Texas...
Last week not Senator Sheppard's Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...