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...hours of manual labor. Father Malone returned the check, but this time the story got into the newspapers. Suspended under suspicion of collusion were two WPA timekeepers, Gilbert Colley and Max Whoolery, and Richard Malone actually got a job posing for photographers, sitting down, with pick & shovel beside...
With members of the Chamber of Deputies on holiday last week, brawny French workers lit into the legislature's garden with pick & shovel, began excavating a huge crater. In it will be constructed a bombproof shelter in which, during future air raids, the world's first subterranean parliament may some...
...surgery. Paying sick calls was no cinch. Horse & buggy covered 20 miles in half a day, while "Pop" shot rabbits and fence posts, read, slept, fought blizzards and dogs that were as bad as the roads. As standard instruments he carried a six-shooter for the dogs, wire cutter, shovel and hammer to cut through fences when he got lost in blizzards. No farmer ever complained...
...bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
...that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought...