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...voted for: War (1917), 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Jones Act (1929), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Tax Reduction (1924, 1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), Muscle Shoals (1931), Direct Jobless Relief (1932), Anti-injunction Labor Bill...
...Last week R. F. C. reported that between Feb. 2 and Nov. 30, it paid out $1,502,168,401 in cash loans, got back $283,049,032. Jobless relief to states totaled $87,109,865 out of an available...
...good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press had broadcast the Burns story: how he went to War, returned jobless, was convicted of a $5.85 grocery robbery in Atlanta, escaped once to set up a substantial business in Chicago, escaped the second time to write his cinematized book, I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang...
...reduction did not apply to the 3% rate now charged states for loans for jobless relief. Likewise the interest charge on self-liquidating projects, now averaging 51%) was left open to adjustment in individual cases...
...while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert to help jobless musicians. Sturdy Frederick Stock conducted the Chicago Symphony augmented by outside players to a mighty 200. Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto. But it was not the excellent concert which...