Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrugged Mexico City's Universal: "The majority of our jobless countrymen are now living on relief aid given by the U. S. Government...
...brunt in the upper Ohio valley. Rising 2 in. an hour toward a 47-ft. crest, the river submerged residential Wheeling Island and the Red Cross ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded, 30,000 were jobless in the area. In the 100 mr. between Parkersburg and Huntington, thousands were driven from their homes. Not a store was open on Point Pleasant's Main Street as trucks hauled everything movable back into the hills. Synagogs and churches were turned into rescue stations and refugee barracks...
...years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never forgive the king for inviting her to a dinner at which she had to sit down with "that woman" Mrs. Simpson...
...Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20? bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...
This was not entirely the King's fault, for his entourage did everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...