Word: joblessness
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...bring California Institute of Technology into being. In announcing his plan, Director Lloyd-Smith made public the sad fact that New York City's $38,250,000 relief fund, collected from State, city and private sources, was caring for only about one-half the estimated 230,570 jobless heads of families. Of the remainder about 20,000 have been investigated, found urgently in need of help. To this list more will probably be added each week. Though simple in operation, the plan is staggering in size and scope. It has called for the aid of all of New York...
...bill authorizing an appropriation of $132,500,000 for emergency highway construction to increase employment; sent it to the Senate. Of the total, $120,000,000 would be lent States to spend in one year, repay in ten. Demo-crats claimed the measure would put a million jobless men to work. Republicans predicted a Presidential veto...
...Manhattan, a few months ago, four black brothers were hanging around Harlem jobless. Four years ago vaudeville all over the U. S. was flat on its back. Talking pictures, long & short, were filling entire bills. But talking "shorts" did not satisfy. Today, cinemansions are putting on 60% more flesh & blood acts than in 1929. Radio-Keith-Orpheum spent $12,000,000 on its vaudeville last year. The four Mills Brothers, their engagement at Manhattan's Palace Theatre extended for a third time, rolled about town last week in their automobile driven by a liveried chauffeur...
...heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
...policies with a certain suspicion. To them he is a man with a past. To himself, at 57, he is a man with a future. His real brethren are Senators La Follette, Cutting, Norris, and some day there may be a third party for which those now jobless and in want may be glad to vote...