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...grew angrier & angrier for 28 consecutive hours debating relief for Britain's jobless until finally the House had to be suspended in its most unruly scene since 1881 when police were called to eject honorable members by force...
...explosion came after brittle, over-bearing Home Secretary Sir John Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer, claimed that jobless men will get more benefits from the dole as administered by the National Government than they do in the radical municipality of Glasgow...
...have determined," announced Franklin Delano Roosevelt one day last summer, "that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed Youth." Forthwith the President, by executive order, set up the National Youth Administration, appointed Assistant FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams as director, gave him $50,000,000 to spend on jobless U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25 (TIME, July 8, 1935). Last week the NYA reached its first stocktaking milestone as Director Williams, having spent his $50,000,000, began the allotment of a second appropriation...
Harry Thomas Thompson, 28, a Maryland farm boy who served one cruise with the Navy, was in the summer of 1934 jobless and spending his time in a small, disreputable park near the San Pedro, Calif, waterfront. There one hot August evening he made the acquaintance of plump, soft-spoken Toshio Miyazaki, who had learned excellent English as an exchange student at Stanford University, had later been assigned to his country's Intelligence Service. Toshio Miyazaki offered to put Harry Thomas Thompson in the way of earning some money. The job, at $500 per month, plus expenses and bonuses...
...King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...