Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sixth, a balancing of the American budget by the setting up of no further appropriations that are in the nature of direct grants, with the exception of relief appropriations for subsistence. All other advances of money should be on a loan basis. American industries should be given loans directly by the R. F. C. unless it is intended to modify the securities law and permit a return to private investment financing...
...only nation in North. Central or South America to have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich and pious, is a thoroughgoing Soviet-ophobe. Mexico extended recognition only to withdraw it with loud complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey...
Nearly one-third of all New York's deliveries were in the home. Less than one-sixth of the preventable deaths occurred there. Granting that home deliveries are usually normal ones, the committee yet found cause for alarm in the failure of hospitalization to reduce puerperal infection, death...
...Last week Kentucky became the sixth State whose unemployment relief had to be taken over entirely by the Federal Government.* Simultaneously, President Roosevelt announced the creation of a Civil Works Administration under the supervision of Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. CWA will take $400,000,000 from the Public Works fund, $150,000.000 from the Relief Administration, release 2,000,000 men from local and State relief rolls at once, put 2,000,000 other unemployed to work by Dec. 15. CWA workers will be employed on small local projects (playgrounds, sanitation, pest control, repairs), will work...
...austerity to her orphaned childhood. Her Grandmother Hall raised her at Tivoli, on the Hudson. Mrs. Roosevelt recalls that twice a day she was expected to walk up & down a road on the estate with a cane hooked under her arms behind her back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...