Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn the real words! Utter exhaustion kept me from further investigation ! My relief knew no bounds when I read the lucid (?) explanation in TIME last week...
...wavy-haired Lawyer Ban croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions, 15 years' residence (instead of five years as in the "Ham & Eggs'' proposal...
Last week Toronto officials tried to get all this relief money back from the four mothers, fecund winners of Toronto's famed "Stork Derby" which paid out $425,000 (TIME, June 13). The day they got their prize money the mothers spontaneously chorused: "We will repay every cent of the relief we received...
Sourly Toronto relief officials chorused last week, "They got their money three months ago and up to now not a single mother has paid back a cent...
Director Cahill and advisers were untroubled by this expected criticism, because in the first month of the project they had laid down a long-range program. The Project's personnel, they decided, was to be drawn from relief rolls in four classes: professional, skilled, intermediate and unskilled. As by their works they became better known, skilled men were employed in research, teaching and craft work, intermediates formed an apprentice class for training, and unskilled personnel came in handy in various ways...