Word: joblessness
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...week, except for a few $250 boxes, was sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
...should decide to borrow $240,000.000 and spend this sum to make jobs for the jobless, Washington would be doing proportionately the very thing that Melbourne did last week. Significantly it was not an Australian radical who proposed to borrow $2 per capita of Australia's population to make jobs. Instead the plan was unfolded at Melbourne to a Commonwealth Conference of State Premiers by Australia's new Roman Catholic and comparatively conservative Federal Premier, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, father of nine, famed "Man from Tasmania...
Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater?the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed themselves unexpectedly at the head of the procession and began throwing stones into the window of a jewelry store. Four hussies were seen to escape with skirtsful of jewelry down a side street. By that time their feminine example had spurred the men to some really heavy looting. Auckland police...
...smart spring "season." Sir John's valet had packed his things. His secretary had booked him the best cabin on a boat sailing shortly from St. John's.* Over the teacups at Buckingham Palace candid Sir John would answer King George's queries about the rioting of Newfoundland's jobless (TIME, Feb. 22). If His Majesty, who goes deeply into such things, should ask whether a picture of His Majesty was actually broken over the head of Premier Sir Richard Squires by the mob, Sir John would tell His Majesty the truth. Suddenly last week as Governor Sir John prepared...
...that the Orchestral Association would not sponsor a drive for funds but to observers it seemed unlikely that wealthy Chicagoans would stand by and watch their greatest musical institution pass out of existence or that the musicians' union would want to see any more of its members made jobless...