Appropriation for U.S. Unemployed
COMPARISON With TOTALITARIAN COUNTRIES United Press Association.—By fii#ctr»c Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, April 27. President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking for a 1,750,090,000 dollar appropriation for tho 1940 fiscal year for tho Works Progress Association relief systom. The President, commenting upon allegations that there were lew unemployed persons in the 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 the people will not assume the totalit arian methods of government are mor* effective than ours.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 5
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