Word: joblessness
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...made it his peculiar personal problem when he asked and got from Congress $4,000,000,000 and the right to spend it as he saw fit. With this fat fund firmly in hand, his promise to the country was to end the dole and give 3,500,000 jobless real jobs. And by last week he was up against a hard mathematical fact: $4,000,000,000 divided among 3,500,000 jobs gave only...
Last week cries of the same distressed timbre were howling around the head of victorious Governor Merriam. The army of itinerant jobless from other states, first attracted to California by EPIC's glittering promises, had mounted to 75,000. Agitator Harry Bridges, the tough little Australian who promoted the San Francisco general walkout, was busy agitating longshoremen's strikes. Closer to home, Opposition legislators were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache...
...driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons as the Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle...
...broke, jobless, totally blind. Three weeks ago a doctor offered to patch up his right eye. Last week Sam Langford blinked, saw his first light in five years, blubbered, laughed, pounded his doctor's shoulders...
Last week, with a fresh $4,000,000,000 in his pocket and national elections still far away, President Roosevelt heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...