Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...computes the total number of Harvard men at 50,000-a liberal figure and assumes that all jobless and disgruntled sons of Harvard are registered at Wadsworth House, the proportion is very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...
...inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
Jobs. At this time last year some 2,000,000 workers were jobless; but today this figure has shrunk...
JILL?E. M. Delafield?Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes...
Britons viewed with disquiet, last week, the announcement that 43,029 more British workers were unemployed than the 1,516,171 who were jobless during the week previous. (Coal or other strikers are not included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which...