Word: joblessness
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...Said jobless Tom Buchanan: "To Mrs. Roosevelt and to all whose advice has been, 'stand up and be counted,' I now reply that I am on my feet. It is time for them to stand up and be counted, too." When Washington Guildsmen stood up last week, the preliminary count was 251 to 163 in favor of doing nothing for Communist Buchanan...
...committee picked was 42-year-old Psychologist Douglas Murray McGregor. Leathery, spiky-haired McGregor is an expert on "human relations." He was once night watchman at the mission his grandfather founded in the '90s for Detroit's jobless. After studying at Wayne University, he worked in a gas station, later took a Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937, when M.I.T. decided that its engineers should be more than just animated slide rules, it hired Psychologist McGregor to see what he could do about it. He has been there ever since...
...speaks up for the freedom of the screen-and is quickly made to feel the serfdom of its employees. Ordered by the big boss to recant, Soren is egged on by his best girl (Marsha Hunt) to rebel. About 15 minutes before the final curtain, he finds himself both jobless and blacklisted. But Hollywood itself could not find shabbier ways, in those 15 minutes, of arranging a happy ending...
...kept his mistress at city expense while his wife and three children lived on relief elsewhere. Another sharp fellow kept himself jobless, and thus on relief, by a trick of dress-he wore a fez and a flowing robe while looking for work, secure in the knowledge that few employers wanted anyone in Oriental costume...
...above using "what we called the 'squeeze play' to get additional funds." Hopkins and his deputies "would wait until the last minute before letting Bell and me know they were overspending, then they would appeal to our emotions by reminding us of the plight of the jobless...