Word: equal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount in damages. And he may have to pay a fine up to $10,000, spend up to six months in jail...
...meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because he was too hardheaded to accept the "lovable insanity" of their more extravagant plans, but because...
...graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...
Bohemia, the Czech part of the Republic, will have 140 seats in the Assembly, Slovakia 50, Ruthenia ten. In the Senate the three States will have equal strength, eight seats each. A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it "CzechoSlovakia" according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic's name changed to "The State of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians." Other proposed names with important backing this week: "Western Slavia"; "Central Slavia"; "Slavia...
Subject of the harangue will be: Resolved, That Congress should pass the equal rights amendment for women. The Crimson team will uphold the negative. Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Lawrence Ebb '39 will be opposing Rosalind Lewis '39 and Catherine Sierer '40 of the Shepard Street seminary...