Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many jobless...
There could be no factual answer to that question because the U.S. Labor Department makes no nationwide survey of employment conditions. It gathers a few sample figures from which it estimates on a percentage system whether employment is rising or falling. Some 35,000 business concerns, employing less than five million workers, are regularly queried. Employment by these concerns during 1926 is set at 100%, against which, on a monthly basis, fluctuations are estimated. Three serious complaints against the accuracy of the Labor Department figures: 1) They cover only 12½% of the employment field; 2) No account is taken...
...good political trick itself, began hearings on bills offered by New York's Senator Wagner to create a flexible $50,000,000 public building fund, to establish a large Federal employment service and, most important, to set up fact-finding machinery for the Labor Department to answer the question: how many jobless...
Legislative dissension arose, not over the referendum but over its form. Democrats, wetter than Republicans, demanded that the electorate should vote yes-or-no on repealing the 18th Amendment. Republicans, more numerous, more noisy, succeeded in making it a question of retaining the law. Democrats complained that, since yes is more easy to say than no, the Dry side might win through sheer voter-thoughtlessness...
After holding several long telephone conversations over the wires between Cambridge and New Haven, Harvard and Yale officials have finally come to the agreement not to hold the fourth Harvard-Yale hockey clash. According to reports Yale was anxious to continue the series and have the question of superiority settled and Harvard was opposed to the move. The H.A.A. officials have established a pretty definite policy against post-season games and saw no reason to break a precedent in this case. Only once has this been done and that was when the Crimson football team took a cross-country trip...