UNEMPLOYMENT IN U.S.A.
BIG APPROPRIATION SOUGHT BY PRESIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 27. President Roosevelt sent' a message to Congress asking for a J. 750,000 dollar appropriation for the 1940 fiscal year for the Works Progress Administration relief system. The President, commenting upon allegations that there were few unemployed persons in totalitarian nations, stressed that such work was based for the greater part on “the manufacture of munitions which cost far more than our system.” “I trust people will not assume that totalitarian methods of government re more effective than ours,” he added.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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94UNEMPLOYMENT IN U.S.A. Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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