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...James F. Byrnes found enough power to freeze salaries: henceforth employers will have to ask WLB or the Treasury for permission to give raises-and will have to prove that the increases will not affect the prices of their goods. There are a few exceptions: 1) raises accompanying bona fide promotions; 2) Merit increases; 3) regular raises based on term of service; 4) extra pay under incentive plans to increase production. But no employer can now lift the salaries of his stenographers from $20 to $40 a week just to keep them from moving to a firm which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: New Deal Paradox | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Price Boss Leon Henderson made a concession to politicos who are worried about what lack of gasoline might do to their old-fashioned town-to-town stumping. OPA announced that bona fide candidates will get enough gas to do their electioneering, that local political machines can count on enough to haul voters to the polls on election days. Question in both instances: How much is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Gas for the Gaseous | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Further assistance to the staff, which has been doubled because of the unexpected last-minute rush, can be given by members of the Summer School who are not bona fide Harvard men, said Leonard. "If they will only defer their registration until tomorrow it will help us considerably." Apparently a Dean's office ruling, makes it impossible to extend registration of undergraduates to Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 TO CROWD REGISTRATION TODAY | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...simple solution is to grant an auditor's pass, which otherwise would cost $10, to any bona fide undergraduate or graduate student on presentation of his bursar's card. Men who are studying at Harvard in order to complete requirements for a Harvard degree have, we believe, a just claim for auditing at will. This adjustment in an otherwise smoothly-running program would tend to put the University on a more normal full-time basis. The present system is definitely a step backward and a limitation of intellectual freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound of Flesh II | 6/27/1942 | See Source »

...conferees wrote into the bill a recommendation that draft boards defer bona fide family men, whether supporting their families or nota recommendation many of the boards cannot heed unless they can draft 18- and 19-year-olds. But with family allowances in force, some patriotic 3-As will be able to volunteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Price of Glory: $50 & Keep | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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