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...sings bass in the Episcopal choir. He has had a full and active year in office. He made speeches up & down the country for adequate national defense. He put 10,000 Legion posts into a drive with the American Federation of Labor to find a million jobs for the jobless. He helped President Hoover's anti-hoarding campaign. He went to France, was decorated with the Legion of Honor, inspected A. E. F. cemeteries...
...that the House went Democratic after the 1930 election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless under the Democratic regime of Chairman Farley, he was really put into his 'new berth last week by Mr. Raskob, heaviest individual A. A. P. A. contributor...
There is a considerable body of young people who are not only unable to go to college but are also jobless. To these went last week an invitation from Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), militant labor institution. Chief point: tuition at Commonwealth for nine months costs $120, less per month than the cost of living at home. There are no other expenses. Said Lucien Koch, Commonwealth's director: "Young people to whom the Depression is a reality, who have lost their jobs and are not sure where the next meal is coming from, are the ones most likely to succeed...
...Twelfth: ¶ In London bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed its insolvency on 1) loss of customers killed in the War, 2) the popularity of automobiles, 3) high tariffs, 4) changed social conditions. ¶ In Ickornshaw, Yorkshire, where Viscount Philip Snowden was born, hundreds of jobless men took advantage of their ancient right of free shooting, reaped handsome profits, spoiled the shooting for sportsmen. ¶ At Balmoral the King & Queen were expected this week. In anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers to an intimate, not particularly respectful description of the royal train. Said...
...Brooklyn hulking Deputy Sheriff Vincent Glynn, nephew of Alfred Enianuel Smith, was charged with homicide after he shot & killed a jobless youth on whom he was trying to serve a warrant for nonsupport. His story: that the youth hit him and ran. Few years ago Glynn was a city policeman, was involved in a hit-&-run driving case, quit the force following a shooting scrape in a speakeasy...