Word: joblessness
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...suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony. All were War veterans with honorable discharge papers, all were jobless. By appropriating rides on freight trains most of them had come from as far as Portland, Ore. They hoped to get to Washington and demand an immediate cash settlement of the Bonus...
Meantime General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, was concerned as to how he was to handle an invasion of jobless veterans. From San Francisco, Sacramento, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Evansville, Ind. came reports that independent contingents had set out for the capital. A detachment of 30 passed through Chicago from Utah. General Glassford had heard that from 70,000 to a million veterans would be in Washington by June 6. Together with Daniel Willard Jr., son of B. & O.'s kindly president, General Glassford called on Secretary of War Hurley to decide...
...through three hard winters without a dollar's worth of direct aid from the Federal Treasury. Every proposal for first-hand Government relief of hunger and distress has been damned and defeated with the cry of "Dole!" Before a fourth and perhaps harder winter comes the poor and jobless will vote in a national election. In Washington last week political principle began to bow to public plight...
When Conductor Leopold Stokowski made this statement five weeks ago, most people were inclined to discount it as Stokowski-talk. But last week Stokowski made good his word. He assembled 200 jobless musicians in Reyburn Plaza opposite Philadelphia's City Hall. A sharp wind was blowing across the open square. Some of the musicians sat huddled in overcoats. But Stokowski, by the time the concert was under way, had shed even his jacket, stood conducting in his shirtsleeves...
Stokowski's outdoor concert was ostensibly a rehearsal for a John Philip Sousa memorial concert held next night in Convention Hall. With Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Bandmaster Arthur Pryor, who once played the trombone in Sousa's band, Stokowski led the 200 jobless through nine Sousa marches which have come to comprise the nation's street music...