Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That France should make payments beginning at $30,000,000 each for the first two years and advancing gradually to $125,000,000 in the 17th year, and continuing at that level to the end of the usual 62-year period for paying War debts. No "safeguard"; clause (exempting France from payments in case Germany fails in reparations payments), such as was demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years...
...obtained these hours and this wage, but last year the Coal Owners' Mining Association declared itself unable to maintain the arrangement, and a strike was only averted (TIME, Aug. 10) when the present Baldwin Conservative Government granted a £20,000,000 coal subsidy, which sustained the 1924 wage level artificially until last week, when the subsidy expired. During the week Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners stood...
...must draw students from elements of the population who take prohibition seriously." This is the opinion expressed by Professor T. N. Carver. A drinking class is always a decaying class. The drinking aristocracy is almost all gone and working people who drink, will probably not rise to the college level. We are dependent upon the sober, marrying, industrious class; in short, the rising class...
...Harvard Clubs, issued as a supplement to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, various and sundry sensational meanings, there is no reason to understand these reports as other than same and satisfying commentaries on the activities of the University. For none can find any gross departure from the level of understanding and appreciative critical of existing conditions, criticism in which there is much of praise and little if any blame...
...such expressions leads one to the assumption that there is no opposition here to the introduction of the college system. Yet every one knows that this is not the case. The present writer has seen addressed to the CRIMSON criticisms of the college plan not below the average level of your published correspondence either in literary grace or in logical acumen. These communications were submitted to you in the proper manner, but they never appeared in your columns...