Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international organizers and all officers of the brash young local. Strike leaders decided to defy the President, keep the plant strike-shut. They were backed by local and State C.I.O. groups, by Harry Bridges' longshoremen, by their own rank & file (who declared that all they wanted was a decent wage...
...Gehrig, when he came to die, was given miles of white paper covered with the tenderest tributes for his obituary, principally because he was a decent man. ... Is character then so rare that a good man merits such tributes merely because he has been good? Well, what would...
...British morale ever crumbles, say U.S. observers in Britain, it will be because of dwindling food supplies. Warned one, who heard an ambulance driver complain that he had not had a decent meal in a month: "The British can take it from the bombers, but I doubt if they can stand empty bellies." Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks, altered labels, threatened shopkeepers and cafe proprietors. In spite...
...this labor-fearing world of 1891, Leo's encyclical accepted the necessity of labor unions and the occasional justification of strikes, urged decent wage standards. State regulation of industry, more equal distribution of wealth, broader ownership of property, and much else that was "radical" then. Forty years later, calling Rerum Novarum "the Magna Charta of all Catholic activity in the social sphere," Pius XI confirmed, developed and enlarged it in Quadragesimo Anno...
...first public reaction to the news in Britain and the Americas was the same as Duff Cooper's. Hess was played up as a "decent" Nazi who had escaped from the enemy camp, would undoubtedly aid the British...