Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation heads whose stock is listed on the Exchange. This list, on which the public value places a valuation of $50,000,000,000, is not only a roster of U. S. Big Business but it also blankets most of the work of the nation and the livelihood of millions and millions of people. Through corporation presidents and officers Mr. Whitney was, in effect, aiming his appeal at the smallest stockholder and the lowliest employe. Said he in his letter...
...take care of them under some dole system. This is because with a cut in acreage there is no need for so many workers in the fields. It is believed this may affect 400,000 farmers and a large number of persons who are dependent upon them for livelihood...
...home constituency, the Right Reverend Michael Fogarty of Killaloe. In a speech to undergraduates of a Catholic college the Bishop blamed the President for inviting trade reprisals, cried: "You are the sons of farmers whose unhappy lot it has become to see their industry and sole source of livelihood practically killed by a heartlessness which is inconceivable." As if to nail home the Bishop's point Britain last week made the Free State farmers' lot unhappier still by announcing that British imports of Irish "fat cattle" will be cut in half for the next three months, imports...
...Connecticut farmers' means of livelihood the Connecticut Board of Fisheries & Game last week added pheasants. It announced regulations for privately-owned pheasant-shooting preserves whose owners may lease shooting privileges to outsiders. The Board's purpose was "to test and demonstrate the claim that private shooting areas . . . are not harmful to the public interest and are beneficial to the majority of sportsmen by producing more game birds of which many will spread out from the intensively developed areas to restock surrounding covers." The regular pheasant season of one month will be enforced on preserves which release at least...
...which Mrs. Roosevelt is talking about is Prohibiting Poverty, a 131-pp. volume by a Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin of Florida. Mrs. Martin, 71, is a onetime Fabian Socialist, wife of a lecturer at individualistic Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.). At Rollins Mrs. Martin had lectured on her National Livelihood Plan. Her preamble is as follows: ALL OF THE NATION'S YOUNG PEOPLE OF BOTH SEXES, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 26, AS A CONTINUATION OF THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, SHALL BE INDUSTRIALLY ORGANIZED TO PRODUCE, UNDER SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION, A SUFFICIENCY OF THE NECESSARY GOODS AND SERVICES...