Word: joblessness
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...Jobless "World Citizen" Garry Davis...
...Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland. The outcast 22 demand a permanent injunction against "maintaining any blacklist or policy of blacklisting or discriminating against the plaintiffs . . . with respect to employment in the motion picture industry...
...jobless ex-college student in the middle of a Peking winter, young Liu Shaw-tong was a pushover for the poster...
...devised by the New Deal - to keep up buying power and cushion the severity of a slump. Government price supports keep the farmer's income relatively stable ; federal deposit insurance helps prevent any 1932-type bank panics. Strong unions keep a floor under wages; unemployment insurance tides the jobless over short layoffs. While only 15% of the U.S. labor force was covered by pension systems in the '30s, today 90% are covered, and private pension plans have grown from 720 in 1930 to 14,000, covering more than 10 million workers. An estimated $12 billion in reserves...
...jobless chef arrested in the Yard Friday for having stolen a book from the Law Library is now suspected of being a Communist spy. Four Boston Federal Bureau of Investigation agents questioned the man yesterday at Cambridge Police headquarters, where he is being held on a charge of suspicion of larceny...