Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold standard would mean "higher prices" for their produce-which it would, in depreciated Union pounds. Appealing to South Africa's mining interests he offered them the prospect of paying their golddiggers in devaluated paper while continuing to sell their gold abroad for its unvariable, basic value which is the cornerstone of international finance. Finally Judge Roos appealed to the arch enemy of his own Nationalist Party which he was trying to split-to Jan Christiaan Smuts...
What the Railway Labor Executives' Association would agree to was a continuation for another year of last year's Willard agreement-10% temporary deduction from the present basic pay scale (TIME, Feb. 8). In renewing the 1932 agreement, railway Labor wanted it made plain that while the pact was in operation, neither side was to apply to the Board of Mediation for revision of the basic scale...
Back in the ballroom, the 1,500 union delegates heard the terms: the Willard-Robertson agreement will be continued for nine months, expiring Oct. 31. Either side may begin pay negotiations with the B. 0. M. on or after June 15. If the carriers serve notice for a basic pay reduction, the unions agree to expedite the normally lengthy proceedings by acting "in a collective manner ... as expeditiously as reasonably possible...
...Hoover Destroyed Everything," During the fateful 14-hour Chamber debate which ended at 6:03 a. m., speakers for virtually all French parties voiced in various ways these basic French convictions: 1) that France, against whom Germany launched her major onslaught in 1914-18, is justly entitled to collect from beaten Germany at least as much as France pays to her Allies; 2) that President Hoover, by imposing his one-year Moratorium against strenuous French objections, destroyed what remained of the possibility of collecting Reparations and destroyed it in the interest of U. S. owners of German securities whose investments...
Permit me to congratulate you upon your editorial quoted in full in this evening's Transcript. I am of the war generation--an ex-service man, as a matter of fact--and am one who agrees with you that if any righteousness existed in the basic causes, conduct, or results of the world war, it is not easily deciphered and less easily attributed more to one than another nation. The whole thing was very much of a washout, and I think you will find more ex-service men in agreement with your general trend of thought in the premises than...