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Looking around for someone to fill the state price-control jobs (at about $10,000 a year), the Democratic National Committee came to a typical solution: Why not hand them over to jobless and deserving Democratic politicians? In that way, the Administration inherited Melvin Ernest Thompson, who was Georgia's acting governor between the reigns of Gene Talmadge and his son, Herman...
...spread. At Abadan 300 students walked out of A.I.O.C. classes, demanding that passing grades be lowered from 50% to 30%. In Isfahan, jobless textile workers demonstrated in front of the Governor General's palace...
...cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Died. Maurice Costello, 73, oldtime matinee idol, the movies' first high-salaried great lover, father of ex-Actresses Dolores (the third Mrs. John Barrymore) and Helene Costello; in Hollywood. Broke and jobless much of the time since World War I, he wound up as a radio bit-player. "It's better to be a has-been," he once said, "than a never...
...months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...