Cigar. At Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Prof. Miller D. Steever, bet a "good cigar" that Roland S. Finley, senior student, could not get a job within 24 hours because "it was hard even for a man willing to work to get a job." This was to prove that unemployment was widespread in the U. S., "a serious indictment of our social organization."
Student Finley went anonymously to Manhattan; failed twice; on the third application got work making radio loudspeakers at 37 cents an hour. For proof he took his time card back to...
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