Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This son of a mail-carrier father, who went off to college with a $5 bill in his pocket, who sings There's a Gold Mine in the Sky and Mother Machree on campaign platforms, would have been jobless on Dec. 12, if he had not inherited Senator Logan's seat. No Kentucky Governor may succeed himself. But Chandler's aide, Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson, Democratic nominee for the Governorship in the Nov. 7 elections, is a 20-to-1 choice over Republican Nominee King Swope. So Chandler had no unemployment problem, for he could resign...
...Schooling makes youth discontented: 40% of U. S. youths, says John Chamberlain, are out of school and jobless, growing "ugly and morose...
Kept in the dark while negotiations were going on were some 150 News-Telegram employes, all but one of whom at week's end were jobless. Most disgusted of the 149 was Reporter Dave Dryden. Under him the Scripps Spokane Press had folded equally suddenly last spring. Cracked he: "It's the same damn routine-no warning or nothing. I'm getting tired of the Scripps tease. If these sheets keep on folding, they won't have a league left to stand...
...fall of 1932 a jobless salesman named Mortimer Glankoff, who was eating on a borrowed $100, began distributing to Manhattan's West Side apartment dwellers a 12-page throwaway called Naborhood Theatre Guide. Salesman Glankoff had a trusting printer and he got doormen to distribute his Guide by bribing them with movie passes. Within a year he was selling enough advertising to hire as editor one Jesse Zunser, a footloose free lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little...
...piled in trucks lined up outside the door. Upstairs several linotype operators still worked. Most of the Journal's, 500 employes did not know just what had happened until noon the next day, when the first edition of the Minneapolis Star-Journal appeared. "Well," said one of the jobless 500 (150 of them later got jobs), "it looks like the Journal but feels like the Star...