Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, May 30 said, "Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. has contributed to Ohio's relief troubles by discharging 4,000 of its 5.000 Toledo workers." This statement creates a wrong impression. The flat glass industry has felt the full force of this depression and operations every where have, of necessity, been sharply reduced. Our company was compelled to lay off a considerable number of its workers - most of them temporarily - but there is quite a difference between such a layoff and a "discharge...
...poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin, the first by three votes and the second...
Nominated by the American Radio Relay League, this 32-year-old father of two last week was selected for the 1937 William Samuel Paley Amateur Radio Award, a sculptural abstraction of aluminum rods and spheres. The Paley Award was founded in"recognition of relief work done by radio amateurs in the 1936 flood disasters. Last year it went to Coudersport, Pa.'s Ham Walter Stiles Jr. He. in March 1936, moved a half ton of radio gear to flood-stricken Renovo, Pa., restored communication contact with the outside world to bring food, clothing and medicine to 4,000 people...
Last week, with demand and prices still falling-on the London Metal Exchange copper dipped well below the 9? figure-producers shivered, for many a mine goes into the red when copper brings less than 9? a pound. Momentary relief came at week's end when German censors, after 15 days' delay, finally released figures on the Reich's copper stocks.* With these in hand, April foreign copper statistics could at last be compiled. These showed that foreign stocks of refined copper were reduced during April from 197,470 to 185,916 tons; that world refined stocks...
These batting spurts formed one of the two Harvard bright spots. The other was provided by the relief hurling of John Mahoney who followed Ingalls to the mound and allowed but three hits in four and a third innings. His slow curves had the Purple popping or grounding out weakly...