Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers' President, genial, well-dressed old Tom McMahon, issued an ultimatum that working hours might be cut from 40 to 30 hours but weekly wages must remain the same. General Johnson called him in, soothed him down with a compromise: 1) an investigation to see whether the industry could afford higher wages; 2) a place for a representative of his union on the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board. To add to U. T. W. prestige President McMahon himself got a job on NRA's Labor Advisory Board...
Theirs is the only industry in which a man already in his grave is a prospect. Even though the average price of a tombstone dropped from $500 to $350 as Depression deepened, many a man preferred to leave his loved one's grave unmarked until he could afford a memorial. These unmarked graves are the industry's backlog, each a potential sale...
Last month Preacher Dodge got out of a hospital bed after an appendectomy, went to President Jacobs to complain about the nonpayment of his salary, demanded $200. President Jacobs reminded him that since June 1, 1932 the University had dropped set salaries, paid its faculty only what it could afford from time to time. Nevertheless Preacher Dodge, who was pastor of Atlanta's Central Congregational Church until parishioners tired of his advanced religious views, needed the money and thought he should have it. One morning last week wiry little Preacher Dodge marched into wiry little President Jacobs' office...
...Methodist women could not afford to pay, Bondman Bitting might be less bitter. But four trips to Los Angeles have convinced him otherwise. At its annual meeting last year, he discovered, the California Society reported total receipts of $87,281. Of that, $35,371 went to National Headquarters in Ohio. Thence, presumably, it went to China. For its U. S. bondholders, Mr. Bitting was informed on his last trip, the Society had nothing, would promise nothing...
...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...