Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conceived in the President's First Inaugural Address, and born in April 1933, CCC had one of the best records of all New Deal hopefuls. From city and farm the Corps rescued thousands of jobless youths. During its busiest month in 1935, it housed as many as 505,782 boys in more than 2,000 camps throughout the nation. Up & down the land, CCCers built roads, carved trails, cleared parks, reforested, learned crafts, fought fires. The most rabid opponents of New Deal spending admitted that CCC was worthwhile...
...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...
...with only his A.B. degree as bargaining power, he will be forced to accept a menial job with menial pay. The only way to prevent such "exploitation" is training in one of the various graduate schools. Abolishing the Placement Bureau would thus have the effect of encouraging the jobless office-door vagrants to continue for another three years at some University, possibly Harvard...
...Unemployment is now around a quartermillion. Every second worker who has unemployment insurance is jobless...
...commissioned officers in the Air Corps (about 10,000 men) have signed up to learn Spanish. This will put some 250 more jobless pedants to work...