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...worker, 25% to supervisors as an incentive to push the men. Their standard "B unit," basis of pay, became hated by labor because it was increased as output rose, so that bonuses became harder & harder to earn while basic pay remained unchanged. Says Albert Ramond: ". . . We were far from blameless. We left the door open for abuses. When the depression came, abuses came with...
...Church cannot be held blameless for the present "rotten state of economic affairs" because the Church did not act soon enough or strongly enough to avert...
...deterrents" are removed, 85.4% believed that private industry can in time absorb all the unemployed. More surprising was the line-up on what the deterrents are. Only 40% believed them to be all on the Government's side. A clear majority of 58.9% agreed that management is not blameless, that only by a change in business policies combined with a change in Government's attitude can industry absorb the unemployed. In this willingness to share the blame, finance and investment executives had a smaller part (55.5%) than commercial and retail...
...Bohemia, where "nothing was so taboo as sentimentality," where anarchism, drunkenness and futurism foretold coming decades of disintegration. They came: the World War, the Bavarian Soviet Republic, inflation, hunger, humiliation, the Nazis. Oskar Graf thought more & more of his mother. He identified her with the masses, "the blameless German people . . . already behind the plow, in the workshops, factories, and offices, working as hard as ever, without particularly concerning themselves about the forces that were waiting to mislead and deceive them anew." At 70 his widowed mother was still wrapping her sore legs in herbs, tending her chickens, praying...
...prophet, Jesus, which would have indicated anything of a violent or seditious nature in his character. Those who knew him when he was a lad say that his work in his father's carpenter shop was excellent, and that, although he was "a real boy," his conduct was blameless at all times...