Word: joblessness
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...public works program, costing up to $5,000,000,000, with direct Federal relief to the jobless needy. "I have no doubt the Government could borrow...
...Received from the Manufactures Committee a bill providing $500,000,000 for direct jobless relief to the States...
Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington police superintendent, is afraid of what months of jobless shifting about may do to boys' morale. Last week he appeared before the Manufactures Committee to urge his plan for establishing small camps where boys may help support themselves by farming and other work, receive vocational training. He wants each camp limited to 750, with semimilitary discipline imposed by self-chosen officers. Failing some such measures, General Glassford foresees "a generation of hoboes...
...Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless...
...Hampshire warned off immigrants who had heard of a bill introduced into the General Court which would stock and sell abandoned farms to jobless heads of families...