National Affairs: Right To Life

Some form of direct Federal Unemployment Relief appears inevitable.

When shrewd old James Eli Watson, Republican leader of the Senate, who knows well his President's antipathy to direct relief, made this declaration last week it became finally clear that the Senate weather-vane had been blasted half way round the compass by the cold wind of Want. To relieve or not to relieve was no longer the question. It was now, as far as the Senate was concerned, how to relieve?

What brought relief matters close to a head last week was...

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