Word: joblessness
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...Crooks' Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...
...high tariff on "non-British coal" (i.e. on U. S. coal) she would first be retaliating potently upon the U. S., and second she would be in a position to buy nearly all her import coal from Great Britain, thus giving work to the thousands of jobless coal miners who form the bulk of Britain's unemployed...
...Nevertheless, the A. F. of M. heartily approved the formation in Manhattan last week of Judson Radio Program Corp., an organization of six orchestras, small and large, serious and syncopated, which absorbed 200 jobless to play into the public ear via mechanical radio...
...been discussing their business. Without the accompaniment of music they had just completed an annual convention of the American Federation of Musicians. Their faces were not gay for, though they had convened long and intensely, little had been accomplished toward bringing about musical employment for their 35,000 jobless fellow members (TIME...
...into the State. With Citizen Coolidge in the news appeared a new figure-John Brukowski, 22, dark of hair and eye, tight of lip. For several years John drove a car for Miss Ruth Cooper of Smith College's English Department. Miss Cooper went to Europe. John was jobless when Citizen Coolidge returned to Northampton last month. Citizen Coolidge hired him as chauffeur and general handy man at $20 per week. Now John drives the dark Lincoln limousine, on the door of which can still be faintly discerned the outline of stars and an eagle which once composed...