Word: joblessness
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...Jobless Relief will be nothing more sensational than a liberal expansion of the present system of R. F. C. loans to States to relieve local distress. The $300,000,000 fund will probably be doubled and red tape cut so needy States can get more money quicker. "There will be no direct Federal "dole." A moderate public building program, without "pork." will be continued. Across the land will soon spring up a coordinated system of Federal employment agencies...
Efforts to aid a dozen thousand jobless musicians in Manhattan divide into two parts...
...Jeritza bowed to the thunder of applause at the end. her smile might well have been tinged with cynical amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week...
...plant at Dearborn four persons were killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful if troops had not been sent to evict them with tear-gas and bayonets. Last week 15,000 hungry jobless paraded in Chicago, shouted "hang Cermak and Hoover!" Communist efforts to organize the unemployed into a revolutionary force have significantly failed. Doubtless the most potent factor in keeping the country steady and averting even the threat of an armed uprising has been the certainty?such as exists in no other...
England expects every man but chiefly George V to do his duty. Last week the great "hunger march" of jobless men & women from all over the United Kingdom converged ominously on London. One hundred miles away at Sandringham the King & Queen were enjoying a rural autumn. Unhurried and to all appearances unworried, Their Majesties tarried in the country until at least 3,000 footsore and surly marchers had trudged into their capital, then dutifully they returned to Buckingham Palace. They knew among other things that London's bobbies had just taken a 5% wage...