Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff revision in the form of increased rates for agriculture and industries in which "there had been a substantial slackening of activity and a consequent decrease in employment"; reorganization of the Tariff Commission with higher salaries, a faster system of fact-finding on changes recommended, a "sounder" system for valuation...
Objection is made to this system of relief on the ground that the farmer in the cooperative association risks a loss, whereas the farmer who stays out profits by higher prices gained through the association's activities but risks no loss...
...many go on their own, I believe that the total of Americans has risen to about two hundred but even that is less than a twentieth of the total enrollment and I imagine that one could find several national groups (though perhaps of American origin) at Harvard in higher proportions than this. With regard to the displacement of the English by American competition, it is worth noting that in the past few years I think that only one American has played on the Rugger team and the few men who have rowed have not been Rhodes Scholars. It must...
Significance. A generation ago the New England textile industry began dipping from its peak to its present debilitated condition. Causes for the decline were: 1) the unionization of Labor with its new power to dictate higher wages, to call gory strikes, to obtain protective laws; 2) increased taxation; 3) increased cost of power. The mill owners cast anxiously about for a refuge from their troubles. The South, particularly the western sections of the Carolinas, seemed attractive...
...been expected they flaunted their masculinity with loud pride. The Schoolmasters Union is the male offspring of the National Union of Schoolteachers which once was composed of both male and female members. After the War the male members seceded because they felt that male teachers, in general, should receive higher wages than female. Since then, they have met once a year and usually said unpleasant things about female teachers. Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento. They heard several...