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...business sense, there was little doing at the high powwow. The hoboes were glad to be back in Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain...
...which Franklin Roosevelt appointed him. George made the most of it. One way or another he kept his name on the front page: ALLEN DEMANDS MORE MONEY FOR DISTRICT RELIEF . . . COMMISSIONER ALLEN VIEWS COMING YEAR WITH OPTIMISM. In 1934 he set forth across the country dressed as a hobo to study conditions. It made a fine story...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...
...government." He observed, further, that "the GI Bill offers opportunity to practically everyone in the armed service except the dishonorably discharged veteran." "How incomparably better it will be for veterans to turn to college pending the finding of jobs than to walk the streets or go into literal hobo jungles," he said...
...long procession troop Susannah, Frankie & Johnnie, Captain Jinks, Casey Jones, Daisy with her answer true. And easy, engaging Ballad Singer Burl Ives throws in his own specialties-Foggy, Foggy Dew, Blue Tail Fly, and that luscious glimpse of Hobo Heaven, Rock Candy Mountain...