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...what she can produce herself) would be supplied exclusively by Britain-this agreement to be, of course, in return for complete Indian independence. "Tear His Eyes Out!" St. Gandhi had set out for Lancashire to drive a bargain by which he thought both sides would gain-but would hungry, workless Lancashire understand? Was the 76-lb. Mahatma's life safe? Scotland Yard sent with him four detectives (each over 200 lb.), just in case. Darwen, black focus of Lancashire depression, was Inspector Gandhi's objective, but Scotland Yard bundled him off his train at nearby Springvale Village. There...
Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible to get. A small news item resulted...
...Unemployment Insurance Acts did not belie their name. The revolving fund revolved and remained solvent. The workless drew out less than the workers, employers and the State paid in. No unemployed man could draw a single shilling unless he had paid his pence for 30 weeks or more. He then received only what he properly called his "covenanted benefit...
Wisconsin. Milwaukee prepared to put 13,500 workless men to work on a three-day per week basis at 60 cents per hour. Cost...
...either unable (foreign quota laws) or unwilling to leave the United Kingdom. Chief drawback to the scheme is that it once more passes responsibility for unemployment from Great Britain to the Dominions, who are not at all anxious to increase their own unemployment problems with an influx of workless Britons...