...few hours weekly of work cutting grass, raking leaves, m- picking up p.-ipers in tho public parks. Wo must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...shall be of useful character; that preference shall bo given to projects upon which a large percentage of direct labor can be used and which are reasonably...

...President. Now, the whole purpose of this bill is that the work undertaken shall be of a constructive character; that preference shall be given to projects...direct labor can be used and which are reasonably self -liquid ating in character; and that the compensation on emergency public projects should be in the...

...few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves, or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance, and courage and determination. This decision brings me to the problem of what the Government should do with approximately 5,000,000...

...induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. . . . We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance and courage and determination." Quoted in Fred Block et al., The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State (New York: Pantheon Books,...

...antipoverty policy? I would argue that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had it right in 1935 when he said "we must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance and courage and determination." The measure of progress is not the number of Americans who thanks to transfer payments have been raised...

...few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance and courage and determination. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Menage Congress, January 4. 1935. There is nothing the New Deal has so...

...this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit," he told Congress. "We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but nlso their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination."" Accordingly, President...

...this business of relief. I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped. . . . We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance and courage and determination. 21 At the end of 1935, FERA was abruptly terminated. Despite suspicions that they had yielded to pressure...

...but destitute workers. The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. . . . We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their selfreliance and courage and determination. — PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, IN HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, JANUARY 4, 1935; IN THE...

...few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed...their self-reliance, and courage and determination. . . . There are however an additional three and one-half million employable people who are on relief....