RELIEF IN AMERICA
THE PRESIDENT’S PROGRAMME
A HUGE APPROPRIATION * e (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 18, (Received March 19, at 11.30 p.m.) President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 1,500,000,000 dollars for the works progress administration to carry his relief programme through the 1930-7 fiscal j r ear, representing a decrease of 500.000. dollars compared with the previous year. The President coupled his message with an appeal to private industry to put more people to work. If this is not done a supplementary relief appropriation will be necessary. The President estimated that 5,300,000 heads of families and single persons are now dependent upon relief. A Treasury statement shows the public debt at a new high level of 31.447.000. dollars, due to recent heavy Treasury financing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22835, 20 March 1936, Page 9
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