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...Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Leslie Burgin is a "bureaucracy gone mad," as charged by Socialist Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, which would like to get all British industry nationalized as a war measure. It was also intended to ask His Majesty's Government why thousands of miners are still jobless despite a coal shortage, and, finally, why the colossal rearmament program has not yet absorbed 1,400,000 British unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...publicity and no showing off!" In Paris, for example, the war has thrown many musicians and writers out of work. So there is a small committee, Dejeuners de Lettres et de la Musique, one of whose presidents happens to be Mme Lebrun. It serves an ample lunch to jobless writers and musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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