Word: joblessly
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...Jobless men in half of the 48 States drew their frayed coats closer, shivered at the prospect of a hard, hungry winter...
...Angeles, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lowe, jobless, cooked what little food they had, told their three oldest children to skimp, skimped themselves so that their three youngest would have plenty. Next day the three youngest died of poisoning, another...
...charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join the jobless and become dependent upon charity. (If the applicant says he has a job promised him, he is automatically barred by the law's "contract labor" restriction.) Application of the "public charge" clause to Mexican immigration has already reduced alien labor entries from that country from an annual average...
...results in Atlanta. The Constitution broke its silence, reported that the Federal Grand Jury would soon inquire into the Black Shirts. Basis of the investigation: charges that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws...
...amuses herself at the expense of the lowly but amorous Turgis. Unable to see the fun, one night Turgis nearly strangles her, to his own and the reader's great surprise. For that evening he wallows in the melancholy of a murderer, and afterwards in (hat of a jobless man. Solace comes to him, however, in the unbeautiful Poppy Sellers, second-string stenographer...