Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the industrious needy from the conveniently unemployed. Any able-bodied man can keep body and soul together at the work provided without a drain upon the state, thus greatly lessening the need for downright dole...
Detroit re-elected its red-haired Mayor Frank Murphy. Last year idealistic Mayor Murphy almost bankrupted the city with his dole system of unemployment relief, got in bad odor with almost everybody in town except the poor people who helped him last week. Frank Couzens, 29-year-old son of rich and rugged Senator James Couzens, headed the councilmanic ticket, was elected, automatically became president of the city council...
...MacDonald campaign were the arrangements for his speech at Seaham colliery. If Schoolmaster Coxon had still been the Prime Minister's campaign manager instead of his opponent he never would have allowed Scot MacDonald to make a speech the very day that unemployed miners were drawing their reduced dole. He never would have chosen as a meeting place the same hall that had just been used as a dole pay office. Black-faced miners drew their pittances and cursed while unconscious campaign workers tacked MacDonald posters up under their noses. Fortunately there was no rioting. Seaham women, always...
...Lancashire hundreds of thankful people went off the dole and back to work last week. Two cotton mills, long closed, opened; a third that had been operating on a 48-hr, week, changed to a 55-hr, week for at least the next ten weeks. In Britain as a whole the total unemployment figure (2,825,000) had dropped 60,000 in the past fortnight. Economists were not overexcited. Just as they had prophesied when Britain went off the gold standard (TIME, Sept. 28), trade has revived because British goods are cheaper, more attractive to foreign buyers. Another stimulus...
High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...