Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should be a Santa Claus in the election of November 1936. The Republicans' next most unanimous decision was to incorporate in the bill the direct requirement for the payment of the "prevailing wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages) rather than a relief wage of around $50 a month as planned by the Administration. This was something on which they could make trouble for the Administration, for the President had only just...
Europe had forgotten and will quickly forget again that there ever was an Italo-Abyssinian agreement, sponsored at Geneva this winter by the League Council. "My interpretation of the agreement is," continued Abyssinia's Great Editor, "that Abyssinia and Italy recommence direct negotiations forthwith, with the sole purpose of arranging prompt arbitration of various matters in dispute. These include...
...League Council desired that resumption of direct negotiations with Italy should lead to arbitration and my Government desires this too-and will not be coerced or intimidated into acquiescing to negotiations following any other course...
...entire floor of Rome's modernistic Ministry of Corporations clatters all day with the ordered bedlam of statistical machines. Last week they rang up a total of exactly 155,518 Italians re-employed since Oct. 16 as a direct result of an experiment begun that day by the Corporative State...
Senator Glass issued a solemn and well-founded warning about the precarious state of public credit if this amendment became law. But nobody mentioned the even more serious danger to the whole structure of society. Prevailing wages for public works would mean direct competition for labor with private industry, still desperately struggling to make both ends meet. More than enough government jobs have been handed out to demonstrate conclusively that they are usually sinecures, compared to regular industrial positions. With soft government berths in the offing, labor will leave private industry. The question has only two facets, Vote...