Word: joblessness
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...Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, whom William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston flayed last spring for "demagogic talk" over the radio in behalf of cashing the Bonus; and Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh, who invaded Washington with a jobless "army" last winter (TIME, Jan. 18) and is candidate for President of the U. S. on a "Liberty" or "Jobless" party ticket. Father Cox talks loudly of taking over all U. S. wealth, all U. S. banks, providing public works to end unemployment. "Either my party or Communism!" shouts round-faced Father...
...loans to States for direct relief to the jobless, distributed on basis of need but no State to get more than...
...past six weeks Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police, has served as the Government's grinning, good-natured host to the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The youngest Army Brigadier in France, he understood these tattered, jobless, hungry Veterans who without invitation had marched by thousands upon Washington. He helped them build crude quarters on Anacostia flats. He handled their scant funds for food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington...
Last week the Government's foremost expert on joblessness found himself jobless. President Hoover turned 75-year-old Ethelbert Stewart out of the Labor Department as Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Technically, Commissioner Stewart was retired for age under the new Economy Law after the White House failed to include him in its list of overage employes whose professional services were indispensable to the Administration. But many a Washington observer thought there was another reason for dropping this forthright official who had served his Government continuously for 45 years...
...help the Farm Board finance the export of its surplus. A $300,000,000 R. $100,000,000 worth F.C. fund to be lent only to States on the be President as distributed he by sees the fit basis of population for direct relief of the job among the jobless and less and needy.* needy. Chief defender of the Senate bill throughout the long nerve-wracking debate was its author and sponsor. Senator Wagner. German-born, he had served as a Supreme Court justice in New York City where he knew by experience the ex tent of destitution...