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Stoutly the researchers defended their subjects as average citizens, in no sense "down-&-outers." Records of employed men tallied closely with those of the jobless. Why had they quit? After his survey of clerks trying to become executives; laborers, engineers; mechanics, accountants. Professor Paterson observed: "At the bottom of the sea . . . sharks perhaps are busy organizing the suckers into schools for the purpose of teaching them to become flying fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sharks, Suckers, Flying Fish | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field of textiles, threatens to drive European products from the market. The Italian outburst is typical of world feeling toward Japan; England, seeing her textile market in India ruined by the infiltration of Japanese goods and Lancashire weavers jobless by the thousand while Japanese cloth undersells British in Manchester, is sufficiently alarmed to talk seriously of abrogating the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty; in France and the United States sentiment is the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/4/1934 | See Source »

...thinning corn from dawn to dark a farmer's helper is lucky to get $2 per day. Many a factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50? an hour-$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Competition | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...York City's jobless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Carnegie Manna | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Also last week the Government's latest relief agency, Civil Works Administration, whelped with the aid of a $400,000,000 grant from the public works fund, was distributing its pay checks, thus removing 1,183,438 jobless from local charity roils. These men had been required to work for their dole on small emergency projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Alphabet Soup | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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