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...Appropriations Committee the President's bill giving him $4,000,000,000 for work relief plus $880,000.000 to continue present relief programs, saw the light of the Senate floor. Carter Glass, who in Committee had voted unsuccessfully to cut it down to a $2,880,000,000 dole, as Appropriations Chairman dutifully expounded its purpose. When he had finished, Senator Borah inquired...
Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary...
...Bishop then formally condemned "our economic system," laid before the Assembly a report on economic and social conditions with special reference to the Dole. "I had meetings with the leading economists of the City and you never saw such men for disagreeing!" declared His Lordship with vehemence. "I learned more from the unemployed themselves than from all the economists in the world...
...down the land Anglican churchmen had come out with the proletariat for what they called a square deal, and National Government, frightened last week, were trying to give it in hot haste. None too soon. Day after Major Stanley suspended the hated new Dole regulations, famed Sheffield's silver-plating and cutlery-fashioning proletariat ran amuck around the City Hall, flung brickbats through the windows when the Sheffield City Council refused to receive a delegation of unemployed demanding still more Dole, beat up nine policemen...
Significance. Canada's Dole-hungry proletariat has just terrified Canada's rich, pious and Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett (a personal friend of King George) into turning his political coat, emerging as a New Deal radical (TIME, Jan. 14). Just how frightened were the Conservative leaders of National Government in London last week? They were not frightened. Neither was the average British Islander. In tradition, which Canada lacks, Britain is strong. Part of that tradition is that she is ruled by "The Families"; that even great pieces of Socialism like the Dole will be administered by gentlemen...