Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah law gave him the choice of being hanged or shot by a firing squad. "I prefer to be shot," said John Deering...
...business, automakers largely dictate the prices paid for parts, and thus in effect the wages paid by their makers. Harry Bennett last week announced: "Our purchasing department has been instructed not to favor parts manufacturers with low wage rates at the expense of competitors with higher wage scales and better working conditions...
...last week: "It [the parts agreement] has more potentialities than any other single thing in American labor history." Chances of recognition of the U. A. W. by Henry Ford himself, last major holdout, Homer Martin would not discuss, but there was hope in his remark: "Nobody can do a better job of standardizing wages, hours and conditions than labor and industry cooperating on a national scale...
...cried: "What is this absurd legend which seeks to make believe that a call to work is merely Fascist ideology? What is the meaning of this crusade against the Government which boomerangs against France? . . . We say there is no more imperious national duty than to produce more and better goods! When I ask a vigorous effort, I ask it of all Frenchmen, not only the working class! I will not tolerate a spirit of retrogression which would reduce the well-being and the liberty of the workers...
From the Old Port at the foot of the Cannebiere a fireboat squirted water as far as it could, striving to wet down as many roofs as possible, but it was soon evident that the city fire department was no better than the police. Four years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...