RELIEF: Warm Springs Swarm

City editors last week ordered their cameramen to begin harvesting the winter crop of breadline pictures. For four years breadline pictures have been obtainable almost any month of the year, any day of the month, but the time when pictures are wanted is when there is text to go with them. Editors knew that the text was arriving: accounts of below freezing temperatures; William Green's assertion that "our relief problem this winter is the most serious this nation has ever faced"; the appropriation by New York City of its biggest relief budget...

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