Word: diem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...
Miners of South Wales did their best toward solving the complex problem by suggesting that wages should be regulated, in the lower ranks of the coal industry, by the size of a man's family. An example: If a worl.er gets 5s per diem and has a wife, he would draw an additional shilling and 3d; 5d for the first child, 4d for the second, 3d for the third and 2d for the fourth...
Messrs. Bower and McKenzie were strenuous advocates of acceptance of the Henry Ford bid. Democrat Dial rendered some assistance to the Administration in the last Congress. All five will receive a minimum compensation of $30 per diem...
...machinery. Second prize was won by the work of Jean Marcel Paul, eccentric Frenchman who, revolting against the tradition which makes a painting square or round, affects dissymetry in his frames. His latest work, The Passions, has 13 corners, 3 curves, resembling in outline a broken flint. Another, Carpe Diem, has the shape of a starfish. Exhibited was work by such U. S. artists as Achsah Brewster, Theodore Butler, Cameron Burnside, Irving Brokaw...
...Society of Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen, and Dockers (the Blue Union) whose membership is confined to London, rejected the settlement and voted to continue the strike for the immediate increase of the full 54? per diem...