Word: joblessness
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...march of bonus-seeking veterans on Washington ended in an ill-tempered whiff of tear gas that embarrassed the Army's orderly Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want...
...mere fraternity, the G.O.A.A.A. was formed by a German-born contralto named Elizabeth Hoeppel, onetime of the Chicago opera, who among other things wanted the U. S. Government to provide more relief for jobless singers. Contralto Hoeppel's union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also...
There was an unusually big morning audience at Manhattan's Palace Theatre one day last week. When 200 of them failed to leave after the first show, the management learned what was up. The 200 were jobless musicians from Local 802, biggest branch of the American Federation of Musicians. They had come well-supplied with cigarets and sandwiches and prepared to stay in their seats until RKO Service Corp. should agree to hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth...
...next few years Hart Crane got his education: a queer mixture of little magazines, Greenwich Village society and odd jobs. He worked brief spells in a munitions factory, a shipyard, a newspaper office. When he was jobless or in financial straits, which was most of the time, friends lent him money and put him up. A prickly guest, he was always quick to take offense...
...Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman's head, killed...