LABOR: Significant Women

Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is...

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