Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HYDE PARK, N. Y.--Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, indicated tonight after a series of conferences with President Roosevelt that relief expenditures may be slashed during the next fiscal year. Asked what recommendations he would make as to new appropriation, he observed...
...recite a few of them," Landis said. "They are these--that city employees will be dismissed from the rolls, that relief will be suspended, that the sole effort involved is one to reduce the tax bills of the rich. If I believed these stories, I would not be here before you tonight...
...James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade). Describing himself as one "known all over Baltimore as Sourpuss." Mr. Cain wrote to the Sim: "Polo is played by many different kinds of people now. ... [It is] within the means of most, even those of us who are on relief, as I have the honor...
...Author Cain is not on relief...
...mobilization had cost so much that the Cabinet, with sighs of relief, blamed the increased but chronic French Treasury shortage entirely on that, and Premier Daladier set about trying to revalue the gold reserve-which was last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march...