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Still standing, up to last week, was the latest promise of President Roosevelt and WPAdministrator Hopkins to make at least 90% good on their previous promise to have 3,500,000 jobless citizens at work by Nov. i. Last week the dole deadline was pushed ahead...
...year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...
...income taxpayer at least $20 a year, would make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning $10,000. Even a jobless single man working on a PWA relief project might soon find himself owing the Government an income tax on money the same government had paid him to keep from starving...
...women & children on public bounty, half of which comes from the Federal Government. Of the four-billion-dollar Federal work relief fund, this greatest single pool of public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...