Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventh, by the savings on relief, and reduction of other expenses and the end of pump-priming, drive to really balance this budget...
...Sixth, reduce relief expenditure by one-third through decentralizing its administration. Take it out of the hands of wasters and politicians and put it back into nonpolitical committees in each community and require the States and local communities to find 5 or 10% of the cost. That will provide greater and more sympathetic care for those in distress. It will restore confidence that the republic is not being destroyed by the purchase of elections...
Last January, Berlin's Der Angriff reported that "65,000 persons are starving and freezing in the streets of Cleveland." This was an exaggeration but it was true that relief agencies in Cleveland-where 300,000 of the 1,200,000 population receive some kind of Governmental aid and 75,000 are on direct relief-had broken down almost completely for six days. Last week, Cleveland's relief funds gave out again. This time, in the mild spring weather, there was no danger of freezing, but lines of people, some of them women with children in their arms...
...menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received no relief money for herself and her three children since mid-April. The Barindt larder contained a can of salt, a box of starch, a cake of soap and an onion...
Rites were being arranged today for Dr. William B. Young '13, former Harvard baseball coach, and resident surgeon of the Haymarket and East Boston relief stations, who died yesterday at the age of 49 in the Cambridge city hospital...