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Meanwhile in Manhattan jobless relief focused on single women. Public sympathy was whipped up by a story of eight out-of-work girls who occupied one $2-per-week room, subsisted on five bananas per day. Mrs. August Belmont, head of the Woman's Fund Committee, raised $4,500 by reading in public what George Bernard Shaw described as his "love letters" to her, written in 1904 and 1905 when she was famed Actress Eleanor Robson. And in Washington Mrs. Herbert Hoover returned from the Rapidan camp to speak over the radio in praise of girls and women who have...
...fever is seen wherever there is a chance of gold being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement last week on the report that the so-called "Lost Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga...
...FOOTNOTE* Depression-conscious, too, is a current series of Arrow Collars advertisements. To the jobless they hint that jobs come easier to the man in a stiff collar. To the employed they hint that the man in a stiff collar is more pleasing to his employer, surer...
...week, Philadelphia's Mayor Harry Arista Mackey revealed that for some time past he too has been disguising himself to go among his citizenry. Made up as a tatterdemalion in false whiskers, with a red bandana knotted about his neck, he would wander nocturnally among the poor and jobless of the city, sleeping and eating with them as public wards. Thus, when a committee of unemployed called at his office to complain about conditions in the city's almshouse and demand free food, clothing, rent, streetcar rides, and a dole of $15 a week, Mayor Mackey was well...
Last week jobless hundreds, led by Reds, paraded to the City Hall, demanded municipal relief from Mayor Stump. They asked that everybody in town be given $15 per week plus $2 per week per dependent plus free rent, free gas, free electricity. Funds, they thought, might be raised by a local tax on incomes of $5.000 and up. Mayor Stump ushered the leaders into his office, where they harangued him thus: ". . . You who call yourself a Socialist, must realize the workers are creators of all commodities and yet the workers are starving...