Word: joblessness
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...Result. Five thousand Saxon jobless promptly volunteered. Many were of the class called "loafers on the Dole" (an average German dole-drawer draws two marks [48?] per day). Others were too young to draw dole payments, or disqualified. Out of all the clamoring 5,000 volunteers (many white-collar men and former clerks) the Government selected 120 Saxons for its experimental platoons, sent them...
...Philadelphia, summer was gone. A cold wind blew from the river and the streets were damp and cold. Frank Collins, 65, homeless & jobless, buried his fists in his armpits, dug his chin into his collar, walked until he stood before the open door of a garage. Inside it was not cold. He lay down on a running board, went to sleep. A few minutes later the car drove out, drove until Frank Collins tumbled from the running board into the street, where he lay still. A doctor said he had died in his sleep...
Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
Previously, the Convention had adopted the report of the Commission on Industrial Dislocation, Lawlessness & World Peace (TIME, Oct. 5). In addition to on equivocal appraisal of Prohibition, it said. "Side by side with . . . misery and idleness, there are warehouses bursting with goods . . . ; breadlines; . . . jobless men; money in abundance. . . . The conception of society as made up of autonomous independent individuals ... is as faulty from the point of view of economic realism as it is from the standpoint of Christian idealism. Our traditional philosophy of rugged individualism must be modified...
...England's New Statesman & Nation, Scientist Louis Herrman revived and elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians...