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Unvisited by Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...
...addition to federal directors, several professional and lay leaders will be present to help formulate definite educational policies for the training of jobless young...
Last year Representatives were thoroughly embarrassed when Mr. & Mrs. Everett Parker of Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...
...from the standpoint of playwriting, direction and acting would do little credit to the sophomore class of any second-rank high school. . . . Actors and others connected with the art of the drama most certainly are entitled to their share of the assistance the Government is extending to the jobless, but taxation plus boredom for the theatre-going citizens savors of double-jeopardy...
...Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year-old runt. Now 4 ft. 6 in. tall, nearly toothless, prematurely aged and jobless for most of the past 14 years. John Michael Cassidy muttered that on Britain's dole a man does not get enough to marry and have children. "I love kids," added the King's Runt wistfully. "So did King George...