Word: joblessness
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...brutally you can keep a dog hungry for a long while, but you can't grab a bone from him without being bitten.-Socialist Norman Thomas on the reduction of Civil Works Administration payments to 4,000,000 otherwise jobless men and women...
...jobless of the land were not to have their old bones of relief taken from them without getting something in return. After much cogitation the President last week announced his ideas of the kind of new bones Relief Administrator Hopkins would provide by May 1. A White House statement began: "The experience of the past nine months has shown that the problem of unemployment must be faced on more than one front." Three fronts on which the President proposed to face...
When the Florida real estate boom collapsed, Florida went on short rations for seven years. Last week Florida made a gesture to help out other states also on short rations. That the jobless of northern states might have vitamins for breakfast, the Florida Citrus Control Committee agreed to donate 11,000 bushels of oranges per day to unemployment, provided Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would pay packing and shipping costs. Well might Florida make this gesture, for last week she felt that her seven lean years were over...
Last week U. S. Science took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and struck back at the popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting...
Scientist Albert Einstein who spends his spare time fiddling, received a letter from one Sigismund Alexander, jobless Jewish violinist, asking help. Professor Einstein replied: "I live a very, very quiet life here in Princeton and could not help you directly to find job. But your letter was very interesting to me-so much so that I promise herewith to write an autographic letter of thanks to anyone who gives you a job for at least a month...