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...Keep the children in school!" was the warning three weeks ago of Frederick Cleveland Croxton, assistant to Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford in President Hoover's Unemployment Relief Organization (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York pointed out that 1,000,000 children under 16 were estimated to be holding jobs, that in 1930 some 103,000 14-and-15-year-olds left school to work. "That is a condition which ought not to continue...
President Hoover last week made his list of Big Names bigger. To his Organization for Unemployment relief under Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford, he added 19 important persons, brought the total to 84. Among those appointed last week were: James Rudolph Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President; Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland economist; Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker; Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific president; Stuart Cramer, North Carolina textile tycoon; W. H. Maytag, Iowa washing machine maker, and John Walter Drake, Detroit motormaker...
...California, Michigan, Illinois. Connecticut, New York and Delaware notified the President that they were prepared to finance their own relief this winter. To 2,500 local committees Generalissimo Gifford sent out as "model plans" the relief programs adopted by Rochester, Chicago, Wilmington, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The President announced that 39,000 men were now employed on Federal building (7/10 of 1% of all jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies...
After conferences with welfare workers Generalissimo Gifford set Oct. 19-Nov. 25 for a nation-wide drive for relief funds (unofficial estimate: $175,000,000), to be locally raised and spent. Over his own A. T. & T. lines he enlisted State representatives to direct the cash campaign. Many a retired businessman volunteered to help. Plans and suggestions poured...
...first frost. It will require many millions of dollars." Next year it is altogether possible that Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt will confront each other in the Presidential election. In such a contest unemployment relief is likely to be a large issue. Last week while President Hoover, through Generalissimo Gifford. was building up in Washington what would become his "record" on this question, Governor Roosevelt at Albany was putting before the New York Legislature a relief plan to which he could point in a national campaign. His was the first program to be inaugurated by a State...