Word: joblessness
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...whose heart are the U. S. Home & Family, moved in a large way to supply the Yellow Springs banker with $6,000 to lend Senator Fess, to ease the strain on the three building & loan associations sufficiently for the G. 0. P. chairman to withdraw his savings, to put jobless men to work on a new Fess home, and on perhaps 200,000 other homes. The President's purpose was to thaw out the frozen mortgage market on small homes so that people could start new building and thereby contribute to an industrial revival. Three months of conference with...
...Postmaster General Brown authorized the hiring of 176,205 extra employes to handle Christmas mail. C. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania planned to establish relief camps for the jobless, to put them to work building roads...
...Over a network of 150 radio stations, last week President Hoover opened a five-week campaign to gather funds into the nation's community chests, to keep some 6,000,000 jobless from starving this winter. Said he: "No Governmental action, no economic doctrine, no economic plan or project can replace that God-im-posed responsibility of the individual man and woman to their neighbors...
...ignored this charge, busied himself looking up and jotting down a long list of Governor-Senators who had done what he is doing?remained Senators-elect until their gubernatorial terms expired. "Governor" Aldrich said he would take charge of the State in a few days. L. D. Smith, another jobless one, got himself sworn in as lieutenant governor. E. H. Reed, Shreveport grocer, did the same, said he would attach himself to "Governor Aldrich's staff." Sang the groceryman: "Every governor needs a lieutenant governor, and that's why you need...
...individual who can help most in relieving the jobless," said William Philips '00, head of Governor Ely's unemployment committee. "Every individual should feel responsible to help out his neighbor in such a time as this, and usually with very little effort he can give some man that he happens to know a little work even though it be merely in his own house. "If each man, each community, especially the smaller towns, concentrates immediately on their own unemployment, there will be a great decrease in the migration of men out of work to the cities, a movement which takes...