Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, to push forward re-employment, the President publicly renewed his faith in Public Works: "To those who say that our expenditures for public works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford. I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources...
Last August, President Roosevelt ordered the cotton garment industry to down working hours from 40 to 36 per week, up wages 10%, beginning Oct. 1. Protesting that they could not afford the change, manufacturers hotly threatened to shut down rather than obey what amounted to a unique White House command. Last week, with the order's effective date only four days off, shirtmakers announced definite plans to shut down, throw out 25,000 workers, whereas 50,000 cotton garment workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready...
...remain. The Student Employment Office is already overcrowded with unfilled applications, and it does not seem either fair or advisable to cut off the potential source of income that selling offers. A University-controlled laundry and pressing Agency might well put an end to much unnecessary solicitation, afford the impecunians of competing Agencies...
...have secured a method of determining hours on a basis of fact," claimed Leader Gorman. Not so conclusive was the Winant Board's proposal that the Federal Trade Commission make a study of the textile industry to see if manufacturers could afford to reduce hours without reducing...
...their 20's, were contemporaries at Oxford. Each dedicates his book to one Christopher Isherwood. Auden "went down" from Christ Church in 1928, is now teaching at a school near Malvern. Spender left the university three years later, after failing his degree. With an independent income, he can afford to be a professed poet, is at present working on a study of the relation of contemporary writing to political movements and a poetic drama, The Death of a Judge...