Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately . . . that type of executive...
...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...
...Return Relief to the States...
...Remove Relief from politics...
...representing 109,435 of the country's 165,163 licensed doctors, stands for decentralized administration and private initiative. The political and economic tendency of the times, however, is toward larger-scale corporate activity, and many a U. S. doctor-with about a sixth of the population living on relief and another sixth also unable to support private medicine-would agree to some sort of medical socialization...