Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of that decision was a renewed drive for wage laws based on "adequate maintenance" standards as well as "value of service" and "prevailing wages." Of 22 States having minimum wage laws on their books all but six now take into account standards of living in fixing wages. Most of them have set up boards or committees whose duties include discovering how little a working girl can decently live...
...average U. S. artist is now interested in politics and deadly serious about it. As a free man he hates the tyrant and despises his addiction to war. As a worker whom his fellowmen have rarely over-burdened with material rewards, he appreciates his $23.86 from WPA, can live pretty well on it and wants to keep it. On the very practical subject of subsistence, the Artists' Congress, to which such noted professionals as William Zorach, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Rockwell Kent, Stuart Davis, Max Weber, George Biddle, were delegates, was eloquent indeed. This practicality distinguished the Artists' Congress from...
Charles Atlas, mail-order musclebuilder who admits that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...
...capering ground of the most showmanly administrator of public health on earth-Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Berlin-born Dane, who as president of Chicago's Board of Health and by means of spectacular propaganda, keeps vast Chicago an exceptionally healthy city in which to be born & live...
Like stiff collars, cuff links went out with the War when a name-tag and a wristwatch became enough jewelry for any man to live and die with. Their return is credited largely to shirtmakers who have revived soft French cuffs (folded back) which require links...