Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President considered including a minimum wage provision in the minimum work-week law. Suggested was the creation of a variety of Federal boards to fix rock-bottom wages in different industries. President Roosevelt thought only 10% of U. S. industry would need such boards to prevent employers from cutting their employes' throats in trying to cut each other...
...said Boring yesterday, "we don't really know what the phenomena are at bottom. The existence of supernatural phenomena stands unproved in the Margery sessions or in any other sessions, for the immediate sensual phenomena as actually observed by the eyes and ears were all later apparently reproduced and explained by an amateur magician, G. H. Code '17, a member of the Harvard professors' group...
...Saturday, April 1, the 15 per cent paycut for federal employees went into effect," the Director continued. "Last year salaries above $1000 were cut eight and two-third per cent. Now we have made the cut on every salary from top to bottom uniform. This will provide for at least...
...sinking an obsolete warship. Then he proposes that Europe pay its debts in full on pain of being annihilated by a U. S. Navy built beyond treaty limits. All this ends in a covenant of total and apparently worldwide disarmament. As President Hammond slowly scratches his name at the bottom of the covenant, the Angel Gabriel deserts him. He lives just long enough to be carried into a bedroom for a few heroic last words...
Harvard University's retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell told the freshman class, "Gentlemen, I am at the end of the escalator . . . the bottom. You are at the top and starting down...