The Archive · 1930

UNEMPLOYMENT IN

Washington, Ang. 22 — Senator Henry D. Hatfield of West

Virginia announced to-day that nearly complete census figures as of Inst April show that unemployment at that time totalled 2,520,000 persons.

He vigorously denounced Mr. John J, Raskob's Democratic Propaganda Bureau for its statements that there are between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 unemployed in the United States, this alleged fact being utilized as an argument against the Hoover Republican administration—United Press.

Lewisham, England, July. 27-—0t took 20 years for a postcard mailed from Folkestone to reach this suburb, a distance of 70 miles-—'

United Press.

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