Word: decent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replied Progressive Boileau: "Any industry that cannot pay a decent wage has no justification for existing...
...Like America" is not a book that can be tossed aside. The problems raised are vital. Those of us who would hesitate to set up a Communist regime must find another solution, for few will disagree with Mr. Hicks that "there is a great deal in America that no decent person can afford to like...
...Decent Southerners will resent...
...forget that what really counts at the bottom of it all is that the men and women willing to work can have a decent job, a decent job to take care of themselves and their homes and their children adequately; that the farmer, the factory worker, the storekeeper, the gas station man, the manufacturer, the merchant-big and small-the banker who takes pride in the help that he can give to the building of his community-that all these can be sure of a reasonable profit and safety for the earnings that they make-not today nor tomorrow alone...
...understanding their effect upon others and the consequences to yourself. You have enjoyed the advantage of the best education in America. You had the fruits of business and financial success. . . . You headed the greatest financial institution in the world. All of these you betrayed. By your example the decent forces of the world received a setback. I can see nothing in your record to mitigate the circumstances. . . . I sentence you to an indeterminate term of from five to ten years in State's prison...