Word: equality
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Supreme Court. Moreover, any worker or union may sue in "courts of competent jurisdiction" (presumably meaning either State or U. S. district courts) for: 1) the difference between wages paid and wages required by the Act; 2) an equal amount in liquidated damages; 3) costs of the litigation. Each one of a firm's employes may sue separately, running up fantastic legal costs for employers. This undoubtedly will serve as a potent incentive to compliance and a rich field for shysters...
...Spain after fighting ceases, according to General Franco, every Spaniard in the new National State will have equal rights so long as his interests are those of the community at large. Asked "Will you grant a general amnesty after the war is over?" the General replied: "There should not be returned to society an element of fermentation and deterioration, but I believe in redemption through the penalty of labor...
...sport event on the U. S. social calendar, partly because the high jinks and hubbub which always accompany it afford occasion for a discreet parade of fashion and public display, partly because it is one of the few sporting events in which women can compete on an equal footing with men. But it was not until the 1920s, when the horse had lost its last stigma of practicality, that the Horse Show, with two exceptions an annual event since 1883, actually came into...
What really makes me mad is that in Widener Library, where the catalog says that "all men are equal before the knowledge of the ages," there is a door plainly marked FIRE HOSE FOR OFFICERS ONLY. This burns us Freshmen up. Norman E. Furbrush...
Charlottesville is one of those small towns whose innocuous drowsiness no Northerner can ever quite fathom, and whose charm no New England town can ever quite equal--for a Southerner. Charlottesville is Virginia, and Virginia is Charlottesville. There is no escaping this cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion...