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Word: reliefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Hopkins, for whom I have always had a high regard, is supposedly carrying out a Governmental relief program on a non-partisan and non-political basis. Yet his statement says in effect to the relief workers in Iowa: 'You people ought to vote for Mr. Wearin and vote against Senator Gillette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Senate today struck proposed shackles on the New Deal utility program from the recovery -relief bill on assurance from President Roosevelt that no federal aid will be given to erect public power plants unless and until private firms reject "fair" offers for municipal purchase of their facilities...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 6/2/1938 | See Source »

...Indicated that it would buy, through Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 8,000,000 pounds of skim milk powder, equivalent to 88,000,000 pounds of fluid skim milk. FSCC has spent $26,000,000 since January buying up surplus commodities to distribute through relief agencies. Milk production is 8% above last year; prices are lower. Fierce milk wars have been going on in New York, Buffalo, Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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