Word: joblessness
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...news that Church will make the 1960 keynote speech is not necessarily good either for Democrats generally or for Church himself. The paths of keynote-speech glory lead but to the political grave, it seems. Republican Arthur Langlie and Democrat Frank Clement, the 1956 keynoters, are both politically jobless. And Democrats might well worry a bit about Frank Church's florid oratorical style, ominously reminiscent of the embarrassingly overwrought tirade that Tennessee's Governor Clement gushed forth in 1956 ("How long, oh how long, America?"). Perhaps as a hint of things to come. Church last week managed...
...llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance hand in hand around trees to the sad sounds of stringed instruments plucked in a minor key. In Lima, they pile up in miserable shanties at the rate of 4,000 a year, jobless and hopeless. Says Beltrán: "We are not immune to a Castro...
...FOREIGN NEWS). "Seven million have an income of less than $2,000," he proclaimed to the New York politicos. "There are 15 million on a substandard diet; 17 million are not covered even by the $1 minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy our prosperity when 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 of our fellow human beings walk the streets looking for work...
...made a triumphant transatlantic crossing to Canada and back in 1930. Short weeks later, an ill-fated sister ship, the R. 101, crashed and burned. Shute chalked the tragedy up to bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married, he found himself jobless. Shute corralled a few like-minded airmen and venture capitalists, rented half of a bus garage in York, and Airspeed Ltd. was born. By the time Shute resigned, with a generous settlement, in 1938, the firm had a payroll of more than 1,000 men and more than...
...Those who thunder that Cicero molded young minds at the turn of the century are right. But Cicero's assassin was not John Dewey alone. It was a combination of child-labor laws, compulsory school attendance, the growing need for vocational training, and the Depression, which sent jobless teenagers scurrying to school for shelter. In 1910 thousands of 15-year-olds had full-time jobs; in 1930 about 90% were in school. Result: an entirely different breed of students, with widely varying abilities. No educational system in history has ever been presented with a broader job-or opportunity...