Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared Secretary Lamont: "Since the Census there has been evidence of a slight but unmistakable improvement...
...reality, that the Hoover Administration was trying to minimize Unemployment. Therefore last January the census bureau made another count of Joblessness, selecting for their enumeration the 19 largest cities of the country, which had shown 775,565 involuntarily idle in the April total. Last week Secretary of Commerce Lamont announced these results...
Last week's cartoon (see cut) was another reaction to the Lamont Fund. The caption read: "With No Apologies to Mr. Lamont: the Alumni Do Right by the College Martyrs...
...minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard alumni wrote an open letter to the University, asking that the women be paid 2¢ per hour back wages over the whole period. Harvard refused. Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas to the scrubwomen...
Undergraduate reactions have been vigorous. Even the comparatively dignified Harvard Crimson (daily) has published satiric verses on the scrub subject. When, last May, the Harvard Square Deal Association gave a benefit "Scrubwomen's Ball" for the Lamont Fund and got two of the women, Mrs. Mary Hogan and Mrs. Annie Mclntyre. to act as chaperons, six students attended in a buggy, one of them astride an old white horse...