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...paid them with checks on the U. S. Treasury and used up most of $400,000,000 allotted to him. This form of direct relief was originally planned to last only until Feb. 15 when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public parks, chasing starlings (see p. 14) but skilled workers repairing public buildings, women as social workers and dishwashers, actors doing plays for schoolchildren, contract bridge experts teaching the U. S. their game, chemists working at Johns Hopkins to eliminate carbon monoxide fumes...
...current issue shows Senator Borah in a Chick Sale goatee. Vice President Garner in a facial fringe that makes him look like President Grant, Postmaster Farley in the handlebar mustachio of an oldtime bar keeper, and New York's onetime Mayor O'Brien in a shovel beard...
Last week a mysterious telephone call reached a Sydney newspaper office. Reporters with lanterns, ropes and shovels piled into a car, dashed through the night the 500 miles to Melbourne. Trembling with excitement they reached the edge of a suburban city park, and following a hastily scrawled treasure map, began to dig. A shovel struck something hard. It was the Emden's bell...
...institutions brings again to public view the problem of what is to be done with those who break laws. It is interesting to note that the investigation is warranted in large part by two allegations diametrically opposed in spirit. One charge is that women in Sherborn are made to shovel coal, the other, that men married during their terms are allowed honeymoons from the prison. That is to say, objections are made on the one hand that the system is too cruel, on the other, too kind. It would seem from other reports that neither of the allegations is true...
...Coal] to secure portions of the right-of-way," observed Judge West, "but the enterprise must be looked upon as a private venture. While the plaintiffs strongly suspected otherwise, they were unable to bring proof to the contrary." Last week the 200 laborers once more laid hands to pick & shovel. The Mellons would soon be hauling their own coal...