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Last week when the Chronicle inaugurated Mrs. O'Connor's bureau, every bigwig from Mayor Angelo J. Rossi down had a good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...
Shrugged Mexico City's Universal: "The majority of our jobless countrymen are now living on relief aid given by the U. S. Government...
...brunt in the upper Ohio valley. Rising 2 in. an hour toward a 47-ft. crest, the river submerged residential Wheeling Island and the Red Cross ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded, 30,000 were jobless in the area. In the 100 mr. between Parkersburg and Huntington, thousands were driven from their homes. Not a store was open on Point Pleasant's Main Street as trucks hauled everything movable back into the hills. Synagogs and churches were turned into rescue stations and refugee barracks...
...years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never forgive the king for inviting her to a dinner at which she had to sit down with "that woman" Mrs. Simpson...
...Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20? bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...