Word: joblessness
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While he was jobless. Engineer Zwanziger took a civil service examination for a job as court interpreter. Last week, offered "probable permanent employment" as Polish and Yiddish interpreter in one of Justice Bissell's courts at $30 per week, he turned it down "because of insufficient salary." Thereupon Justice Bissell wrote a letter to the city's WTAdministrator Victor Ridder, declaring: "I do not believe that the funds of the people should be dissipated in supporting individuals who decline permanent employment in preference to WPA relief...
Insurance ("The Dole") to include agricultural workers by passing through second reading a bill under which jobless farmhands, previously denied any dole, would receive a dole considerably less than that of the urban proletariat. Labor M.P.'s demanded dole "equality for farmhands" but finally abstained and the vote...
...Could Only Cook (Columbia). A light-hearted variation on-the theme of Cinderella, the picture concerns a jobless girl (Jean Arthur) who picks up a young man (Herbert Marshall) on a park bench and, unaware that he is the president of Buchanan Automobile Co. on the lookout for novel recreation, persuades him to pose as her husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers...
...year was still very young when President Roosevelt launched his $4,000,000,000 Work Relief ship with the sanguine hope that 3,500,000 jobless family heads and unmarried adults could be rescued from their demoralizing Dole lifeboats by July 1, put to useful, morale-sustaining work on board. Last week the year was dying and many a hope and many a deadline for attaining that goal lay dead along...
...jobless citizens actually put to work by last week, a discouraging number were growling about their low pay, threatening to strike. Last week President Roosevelt tossed them another bone by changing the basis of local wage rates from county population to population of the largest municipality within the county...