Word: joblessness
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...Passed a bill for advance planning of public works as a jobless aid; sent it to the House...
Many a working man has wondered why he is laid off in hard times when his company's stockholders continue to draw fat dividends. Last month Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, sharply suggested that Industry should reserve funds to tide over its jobless no less than to pay dividends (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week William Francis ("W. O.'') O'Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, announced a new and striking plan to pay Labor as well as Capital a dividend. In declaring a special dividend, General Tire...
Gold Miner. At St. Paul farmers ar.cl laborers gathered to watch Floyd B. Olson become the State's first Farmer-Labor Governor.? As the ruddy-faced young Governor with slicked-back hair was delivering his inaugural address inside the Capitol, a delegation of jobless assembled on the frozen lawn outside. Said Governor Olson: "An acute unemployment situation . . . duty of State to alleviate it . . . carrying on public works." The jobless silently retorted by unfurling a banner labeled: "The warehouses are full; we are empty." Afterwards Governor Olson received the delegation's leaders in his office, told them...
...wake of any disaster of nature such as fire, flood, cyclone or earthquake. Because a drought is a natural disaster, it was ready to relieve its victims. But because overproduction was a man-made calamity and not an Act of God, it was not willing to help the city jobless out of an economic predicament no less severe than that of drought sufferers...
Seven hundred and fifty sick headaches applied. Chosen was Theodore Roberts, 23, a whimsical, jobless, unmarried electrician of Lake Geneva, Wis. His natural hypochondria took the quirky turn of a boast: "I have headaches that are dandies. IVe had them ever since I was eleven and nobody has ever been able to give me any relief. I guess I inherited them, because my mother had them as far back as I can remember...