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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers, whose Libby-Owens-Ford-Glass Co. has contributed to Ohio's relief troubles by discharging 4,000 of its 5,000 Toledo workers, contributed a garish reminder of the size of the relief problem. He released his final figure on the total number of unemployed who registered in last November's census: 7,845,016. This, as he pointed out, is as big as the combined population of Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware, Vermont, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Maine, Oregon...
Results, With the army in charge, the municipal elections on Sunday went off without disorder. The elections were the first in a series of three, the second to be held this week, the third in mid-June, proffered by the Government as one solution of the minority problem. Greatest howl of the Sudetens has been that while they numerically predominate in the border regions, their local governments have been dominated by the Czechs and their administrative posts have been filled with Czech appointees. Among the 1,500 municipalities voting last week only 48 were predominantly German. At last reports most...
Wisconsin's new president, big Clarence Addison Dykstra, facing his first major administrative crisis, quickly defined a liberal by acting like one. He declared himself neutral in the controversy, said the students "must settle their problem as a lesson in self-government." He also hazarded the opinion that the dispute was political, not racial. Said he: "Doubtless in the heat of the Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper...
...editors expect they will soon need a reporter. The appearance of a paid editorial employe will provide Nutmegman Broun with a delicate problem. As Guild President, he might logically be expected to urge the reporter to join the C. I. O. But Labor Leader Broun would also be the reporter's employer and if he did so he would violate the National Labor Relations Act. In the New York World-Telegram recently Cartoonist Will B. Johnstone limned this dilemma...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...