Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor is making weapons which "would be used to bolster up the Fascist Powers...
Inaugurating a Be Rude to People Week, Jim Grouch snarled "G'wan, go back to sleep. There must be some easier way to earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...
Consequently, while his social inferiors are performing in tailor-made clothes amid de luxe surroundings, the sole cinema celebrity of the Virginia hunting set is compelled to earn his living in leggings, hide shirts and a Daniel Boone haircut...
Frontiersman. While most of the 85% of U. S. citizens who still earn their livings in private industry wonder whether the remaining 15% will forever remain dependent on the Government for daily bread, Harry Hopkins has long since made up his mind. Behind his immediate plans for this year's relief, is something far bigger, an economic philosophy in which work-relief is not an emergency measure but a permanent program...
...last week in Washington, Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge may have cost the artist more than most painters earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission...