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During an audience in Vatican City, Pope Pius XI told 450 jobless Englishmen: ''If the Divine Providence caused you to be deprived of work. He did it for your own good. Being without work, you therefore will be all the more appreciative of work when it returns...
...weigh its achievements against its failures. He agreed with General Johnson that the nation was about 25% out of the Depression. In August 750,000 persons found new jobs, bringing the total of re-employment since March up to about 2,200,000. But the nation's jobless still exceeded 7,000,000, most of whom would have to go through another bleak winter before getting work. From Feb. 15 to Aug. 15 the index of all farm prices rose from 49 to 72, with 100 (the 1914 level) as the ultimate goal. In 1932 gross farm income...
When the NRA's Blue Eagle campaign was launched in July, Recovery Adminis- trator Johnson optimistically declared its objective to be the re-employment of 6,000,000 jobless by Labor Day. August brought its difficulties. Last week as Labor Day came and went, General Johnson ventured his first estimate of NRA re-employment...
...Francisco reporters, John Wade Gordon, 21, said that he was hitchhiking on a California highway, got picked up by a shiny automobile whizzing by. Occupant of the automobile was Herbert Clark Hoover, who speedily learned that Hitch-hiker Gordon, a jobless mechanic, was a relative of onetime Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi. Said Hitch-hiker Gordon: "He bought me a meal when we got to the Sausalito Ferry, and then he said: 'Well, son, I'm going to take a chance on you. You have an honest face. I'll give you a little money...
...that address a Star newshawk found a crowd standing outside the Coffee Mug restaurant run by one Max Komen who served 5? breakfasts, 15? lunches. In the centre of the crowd stood a 200-lb, jobless cook named Robert Wright. Yelled Cook Wright: "I asked that - - - -* Komen where his Blue Eagle was. He said 'To hell with the Blue Eagle.' Come out here on the street, Komen, and get what's comin...