Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Hopkins is in politics as a lifetime social worker, who wants the Roosevelt Administration to succeed so that his plan for permanent work relief may be established. Last week he was able to deny righteously that some paper bags marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing...
...most of the 85% of U. S. citizens who still earn their livings in private industry wonder whether the remaining 15% will forever remain dependent on the Government for daily bread, Harry Hopkins has long since made up his mind. Behind his immediate plans for this year's relief, is something far bigger, an economic philosophy in which work-relief is not an emergency measure but a permanent program...
...When those benefits are exhausted, find relief work to keep workers going until private industry can reabsorb them...
...been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes against Mr. Chamberlain as an Independent Conservative. In the last year she has bustled down to Leftist territory, gleaned enough material to write a book,* with...
...Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...