Word: joblessness
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Balloting in Syracuse was blocked by the indignant union before it began. Promptly the plant manager posted notice of a two-week shutdown, fired 17 union leaders "for acting like Communists," announced that the portable division would be moved, not to Elmira but to Ilion, leaving 800 Syracusans jobless. This looked remarkably like a lockout...
Some Mormon unemployed will be put to work on fertile but fallow acreage to raise beets and truck crops for refineries and canneries, the profits to be distributed to the needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about...
...spend and lend for public works, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was a small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry on his incomplete PWA program and Administrator Hopkins got a bigger slice with which, besides doles, to experiment with work relief, surplus farm commodities and rural rehabilitation. In the third stage...
...musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted. By 1903 he had a nine-piece band of his own, went around playing for dances. Slowly it dawned on him that the music which went best was mournful and repetitious, akin to the way Negroes...
...radical jobless left Trenton angrily threatening to elect their own Representatives through a new Farmer-Labor party. Accustomed to eating the refuse of the jobless campers, onto the State House floors scurried hundreds of hungry mice...