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...silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash to spend or invest. This will have an inflationary effect like all the other hundreds of millions that the Government is paying shipyards to build battleships, farmers to reduce crops, laborers to erect public works, jobless to stay alive. So the nationalization of silver is inflationary but only a thimbleful in a big bucket of inflationary Government expenditures...
...Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...Suez is ardently, definitely Socialist and will take no dictatorship from Paris. Despite the Government's best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect up to 50% of what he earned when...
...billion, Administrator Ickes had set aside 2.2 for PWA projects. Not more than 251,000 men had been given work directly. As Great Britain could testify, the straight dole had proved less expensive, more effective. With $400,000,000 from PWA funds, 4,000,000 jobless had received CWA chores and a livelihood for three and a half months. Even the CCC provided a better employment buy than PWA. With $323,000,000 from PWA, CCC had kept 300,000 young men busy in the woods since last summer...