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With 2,000,000 men on the dole, with steel-trap Chancellor Philip Snowden set to catch every extravagance at the exchequer, thoughtful Britons learned last week that it costs $3.20 per mi. to run the Royal Train-empty...
...trickle of unemployed began sifting in from Budapest's industrial suburbs toward the Inner City and the Municipal Park. With the noon whistle, when thousands of factory hands threw down their tools, the trickle swelled to a river. Socialist and Communist agitators appeared magically, shouting for government dole, free bread lines, work on government projects. Squads of mounted gendarmes moved nervously up and down the avenues...
...established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
...Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone! . . . I am anxious to know...
Obedient to the Trade Union Congress the Labor party, according to announcements last week, will debate the baby dole" at their October caucus...