Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln, famed "Cathedral Town," an unemployed gardener and his wife were jailed last week for "trafficking in illegitimate children." Vainly they pleaded that their only crime was to accept ?10 ($37) as their fee for adopting each unwanted child. On their premises were found numerous adopted babies "squawling in squalor." The indignant Lincoln magistrate declared, "Never in all my life have I heard so discreditable and unsavory a case...
Refusal of the plasterers' union to accept a cut in the wages of workmen employed on the new Memorial Chapel will not cause the completion of the building to fall materially behind schedule, R. K. Lamb '28, secretary for information, stated yesterday. The contractors themselves will continue the work of plastering with the assistance of a few unskilled laborers...
...regular wages of the plasterers as regulated by the union are $13 per day, so that they were not permitted to accept a 15 per cent cut from that figure without its consent; all questions of wage level are decided by the union at periodic executive meetings...
...arise if conditions continue. ... It would be with great reluctance that we would ask for a Dole. . . . Everything else suggested has either failed or has been denied. If something is not immediately done we will be obliged to demand a Dole. . . The unemployed citizens we represent will not accept starvation...
Instead Bishop Papp received irate notice that his potatoes are barred from Czechoslovakia by the Czechoslovak Government, which will not permit its starving Ruthenians to accept them even as a gift. That Ruthenians are starving their Deputies in the Czechoslovak Chamber have asserted again & again. The last time this blighted province was up for debate, Ruthenian Deputy Kurtyak shouted, "You smug people here in Prague don't realize that 15,000 Ruthenian children are on the brink of starving to death. For God's sake help our children if you wont help...