Word: joblessness
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...black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk, long jobless, she had died in a manner favored by many a New York suicide...
...Cleveland last week men and women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke...
...Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mrs. Myrtle Crump, 41, jobless school teacher, prepared to spend a second winter with her two children in a tented hole in the ground...
...Illinois, Texas, California and a score more. Speak ers against the Bonus were roughly booed to silence. There was money to be had in Washington and legionaries were bent on getting it. It was hard to make them see why railroads and banks could get hundreds of millions while jobless, hungry veterans got not a penny. Last week 35 States, controlling 1,063 of the convention's 1,415 votes, were Bonus-pledged...
...address the National Citizens Committee of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization of 1932, chairmanned by Democrat Newton Diehl Baker, organized to raise funds locally for local relief. Last week the White House was heartened by a statement by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor: 11,400,000 jobless for August which, for once, showed no increase over the month before. Though progressive unemployment might be checked, Mr. Green warned that next winter will be one of "unthinkable suffering...