Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the spectators who applauded were six Justices of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Hughes warmly shook the hand of Librarian MacLeish, the hand of Britain's Ambassador. It had been a good day's work for Anglo-American relations. It had been a good day's...
For six months of the year young Ken Keltner, of Milwaukee, Wis., has a good job-playing third base for the Cleveland Indians. This year it paid him about $10,000. The season over, he has no visible means of support. A friend drew this fact to Ken Keltner'...
"Why don't you apply for unemployment pay?"
Impressed, Mr. Keltner wrote to the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission in Columbus, Ohio, applied for a $15-a-week handout. He was entitled to it, wasn't he? What was wrong with it?
Meanwhile, in ironic contrast, Cleveland's businesses were booming towards 1929 levels. Yet the city could not tax to raise funds for relief without empowering legislation from the State General Assembly. And Governor John W. Bricker refused to convene the Assembly. Why?