Mrs. Sarah Greenberg of Philadelphia got $4.80 a week. Out of that she spent $3 a week room rent; on the $1.80 she had left she ate "sardines and other things." But Mrs. Greenberg did not look as if $1.80 a week was quite enough. Last week, while the House Appropriations Committee debated the 1941 Relief Bill, Mrs. Greenberg and her many sisters "The Daughters of the American Depression" gathered in Washington and told how they had been getting along on relief. Wives of Congressmen and Cabinet officers came to listen also Eleanor Roosevelt.
Tall, gaunt Mrs. Hughes Easley, wife...
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