Word: joblessness
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...economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
...ordinary winter the District of Columbia has little snow, but snow had just fallen heavily in Washington. Gesturing dramatically toward the snow on the White House lawn, the President asked Mr. Adams how he had the heart to turn a million jobless men off into a desolation like that. It was a tough question to any man, a tougher question to ask a politician...
After several jobless years, punctuated by pavement-pounding, a two-letter word of negation, and the dissonance of discouragement, I am still convinced that there is a niche (not in a mausoleum!) for me where I can be useful and at the same time self-respecting...
Biggest and one of the least criticized publicity staffs in Washington is Agriculture's (72 men). Second biggest and most often on the pan is WPA's (28 in Washington, 30 more throughout the U. S.). Since almost anything WPA might say about its putting the jobless to work cannot help being propaganda of a sort, it tries these days not to say too much.* No WPA movie, radio transcription or "special report" is sent to anyone who does not submit a written, signed request...
...pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising Mr. Lubin's estimate of national income "lost" in Depression to 293 billions, reminding everyone that while 10,569,000 U. S. workers were jobless last October, about 6,800,000 of them would have been jobless even if the industrial system had been functioning at its 1929 rate. This was due to the steady growth of the U. S. labor force, which he figured currently at 40,000 per month...