Word: workless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently the 400 had some hope that this line of reasoning would enlist Public Opinion against the "talkies" and restore, by subtle insistence, the jobs of 35,000 workless men. For one other thing which the convention did before adjourning was to raise the salary of President "Joe" Weber, best business brain of their once-potent union, from $15,000 per annum...
...Leadership is not muddling or meddling. I think of the great, constructive plans of Mr. Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion...
...carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron. British correspondents indicated what H. R. H. had said by reporting that he spoke to the workless begetter with "sympathy and anger...
...Labor Bureau Inc., specialists in economic research for labor unions, last week estimated that throughout the U. S. 4,000,000 persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...