Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the cold snap came a new hustle and bustle among public men in many a city throughout the land to do something about Unemployment. During the summer, when men out of work were not perishing of hunger and cold, this major problem was largely allowed to coast along on the theory that autumn would bring economic improvements. When no business upturn appeared, widespread preparations were started to avert another winter of long breadlines...
...same abstract principles he set up last year: 1) State co-operation for public works; 2) development of national industries; 3) new Federal construction. He praised local efforts to supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds of the 418 delegates. A resolution was adopted calling upon President Hoover to appoint a national committee to deal...
These figures give verity to the Tom Huston slogans: "They Make Hunger a Joy," "Millions Gone Nutty over Tom's Toasted Peanuts...
...become public property without the recognition of those individuals who made the achievement possible. Science has become popularized, but the tireless scientist receives meagre memorial. The journalistic Paul de Kruif has rescued many of these names from oblivion in his "Microbe Hunters" and later his "Hunger Fighter", published in 1928. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has told his own story, and has presented a picture, human and authoritative, which ranges from the log cabins of pioneer Indiana, to Harvard College in the seventies, German student life under the old regime, and the White House from the time of Harrison to Taft...
...about to spend a quarter-billion dollars on new public buildings. Chicago is to have a $14,000,000 post office. Federal court houses and post offices will soon sprout throughout the Mid-West. Chicago builders hunger for these fat federal contracts. Charles Curtis is Vice President of the U. S. Harry King Curtis, his son, is a Chicago lawyer. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Richard Jackson at Chicago began to investigate charges that Son Curtis had taken some $10,000 in "fees" from Chicago builders on promises to obtain for them federal construction contracts, presumably through...