Word: joblessness
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JILL?E. M. Delafield?Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes...
Britons viewed with disquiet, last week, the announcement that 43,029 more British workers were unemployed than the 1,516,171 who were jobless during the week previous. (Coal or other strikers are not included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which...
...girl', and a tooth-ache-inspired nightmare, he realizes he is not as he thought he was: The city has put its stamp upon him. Roused, he asserts his individuality--to such an extent that he loses his position. So the play closes on him, an emancipated and jobless being, proud in his new-found identity and in the idea that he is unique and separate from all other people...
...After a day of excitement, the incident lapsed into insignificance. Vain Appeal. Premier Poincare, in no complacent mood after the events of the week, was approached by a delegation representing 4,000 onetime Government employes who have been dismissed in the interest of national economy. Two hundred of the jobless are former mayors, 600 were employed by the Ministry of Justice, 2,200 were dismissed from the department presided over by Premier Poincare himself-the Ministry of Finance. To threats from these disgruntled onetime officials that they would appeal for reinstatement to the Chamber, M. Poincare replied with a snap...
When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...