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...week, and those too proud to beg got nothing. When Hoover said that nobody had starved, FORTUNE magazine used his statement as the title of a bitter dissent: 95 people suffering starvation were admitted to New York City hospitals during 1931, and 20 of them died; 27% of the schoolchildren in Pennsylvania in 1932 were suffering from malnutrition. Roosevelt's first bill for federal relief passed Congress in May ("God save the people of the United States," protested Republican Senator C.L. Beedy of Maine), but the $500 million appropriation had to be disbursed through the states. By nightfall...
...that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants...
Imagine, a nation that wants to be regarded as strong and advanced is too chintzy to provide an adequate daily meal for schoolchildren to assure their nutritional wellbeing...
...author, the viewpoint is detached. If it succeeds, it does so quietly, but if it fails it sounds trite and silly. There is one notable White failure in this book that illustrates the point--to bring the horror of nuclear war home he seizes on the instructions given schoolchildren for what to do in case of attack. The sketch ends with a line of girls, including White's granddaughter, walking with handkerchiefs over their mouths. "I went outdoors again to push the swing some more for the little girl, who is always forgetting her handkerchief. At lunch I watched...
...school districts signed up for the subsidies. By 1967 the Government was providing $338 million in subsidies for the feeding of 18.9 million schoolchildren, 37% of the school population. Nonetheless, a feeling grew that much more could, and should, be done. A coalition of women's groups estimated that 4 million of the 6 million children from families with incomes of $2,000 or less were not getting free or reduced-price meals, partly because local school districts set wildly differing eligibility standards. The nation was dismayed by repeated disclosures of continuing hunger and even starvation in parts...