Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what it will be, but undoubtedly it will be a figure related to a smaller WPA than we now have. I look to see the relief curve in America go down at an early date, possibly before election in spite of what some political enemies think...
...been said of the indirect advantages to the nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity of this argument, high food costs have consistcutly held down the living standard of our lowest income classes. Surplus distribution through State relief agencies handled negligible quanties of goods from local markets temporarily glutted. The Secretary's scheme will involve nation-wide distribution of farm products ear-marked for poor persons at greatly reduced prices...
Other events soon indicated the trend of Franklin Roosevelt's budget ideas. WPA was served notice that it must make $764,000,000 remaining from its 1938 appropriation last until next March as Congress stipulated. This pointed toward Relief economy. Fresh expenditures were pointed to by the remarks made on the White House steps by a departing Presidential caller. Bernard Mannes Baruch, oldtime Roosevelt adviser, long estranged but, since the carving of Czechoslovakia, again a visitor, declared as he emerged from the Presidential presence that the U. S. is dreadfully short of arms, ammunition and equipment for a needed...
Newshawks last week made the kind of minor political discovery which delights them: the daughter of vehemently anti-New Deal Jouett (Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved...
...Chicago, Inventor Cecil L. Snyder, 45, told his wife, Minnie, that he had thought up a plan that was going to make him $20,000,000. Because they were on relief, Mrs. Snyder promptly asked acting County Judge Albert E. Isley to commit him to an institution. In court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each...