Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger Verseput & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich...
...Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News...
Does the proletariat like it? An Italian who knows is His Excellency Tullio Cianetti, onetime organized labor boss in Turin ("Italy's Detroit"), today still exuberant and under 40 but a member of the Fascist Grand Council and President of the Corporative State's nation-wide Confederation of Workers in Industry...
...Proletariat's Grand Councilman, Excellency Cianetti last week declared: "The experiment of the 40-hour week is for six months, that is until April 16. It is conducted through contracts signed between representatives of the employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does...
Into this fund goes 1% of the worker's pay, matched by a like sum which the State forces the employer to contribute. On overtime work the percentage is quintupled. "We calculate that the yearly sum thus raised will be 200,000,000 lire ($17,000,000)," said Grand Councilman Cianetti. "This is distributed among men with families, in proportion to the number of their children. The average works out to one lira per day (8½?) per child...