Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Bissell. Potent is Labor's argument that private employers use the threatened loss of relief jobs as a club to force workers to accept wages below the WPA subsistence level...
...going out of here, as far as I am concerned, because he is keeping somebody else from the job he has. We are here to give jobs to people who can't get other jobs. ... If everybody here simply stays on his job and doesn't accept outside jobs, we are going to have a solidified group staying right here...
...much light that the Justices found they could not see to read. Elaborate chandeliers were dropped from the ceiling. They shone in the Justices' eyes. Finally a set of nine bronze desk lamps was installed on the bench itself. Greatly irked. Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp...
City Lights was produced when talkies were both so novel and so bad that silence helped rather than hindered the picture. No such advantage aided Chaplin with Modern Times. Even in 1936, however, his older admirers will be able to accept the character which he has immortalized on the screen without sense of shock at such obsolete cinematic devices as subtitles and exaggerated pantomime. What may be the reaction of 10,000,000 cinemaddicts who have grown into the audience since the days when Chaplin pictures were everyday occurrences, is a problem to be answered by the box office. Judging...
...workers controlled about 44% of the company's stock. And Mayor Wilson had a plan, with which Dr. Mitten agreed, that was much more pleasing to the employe-stockholders, though it seemed likely that the Delaware River would run upstream before the creditors would accept it. So Mayor Wilson and Dr. Mitten wanted the employes to get rid of the trustees and put the Wilson Plan before the Court, whereas President Senter wanted them to prolong the trustee ship and accept the Company Plan...