Word: chores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recovery Act relative to collective bargaining and should therefore be enjoined to let the Labor Board hold a new election. He also had to read a long brief arguing that Weirton Steel had not only obeyed the Recovery Act, but that the act itself was unconstitutional. After that chore he had to read 234 affidavits offered by the Government as evidence that Weirton Steel had bludgeoned its employes into a company union, had even taken a number of girl employes to a country club, served them beer, sandwiches and cigarets, entertained them until midnight, with the result that...
...worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king's palace and kill red-haired Magda Lupescu, the Jewess whose company Carol cannot long do without, whose power over Carol the Army mortally hates and fears...
...principal outside jobs filled were those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery...
...University funds should be devoted as far as possible to furthering scholarship, as that is understood at Harvard, it follows in principle that the $40,000 already appropriated for emergency employment should be loaned or given outright to needy students without penalties attached in the form of trumped up chore work. In practice, the principle has to be modified, for two reasons: first, that some men would rather work while they are in College than burden themselves with a debt to be paid after graduation; and second, that if the money is given away, it automatically becomes a scholarship...
...usual number of men have been placed this year in positions as room for service employees, waiters, bus boys, chauffeurs, secretaries and chore...