Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marveled at the silence of female M. P.'s after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
...work because of the new sound films (TIME, May 27, Aug. 19). Interviewed last week, Joseph Nicholas Weber, the Federation's president, estimated the jobless at 10,000. His Federation will spend as much as $500,000 to warn the public that Culture, as well as the livelihood of musicians, is threatened. He insisted: "We are not trying to hinder the development of any industry...
Which brings us to the real cause of the condition about which Mr. Taft is so bitter. In the last quarter of a century, long after Mr. Taft was weaned from his alma mater, the great bulk of college graduates have found their livelihood not in the so-called learned professions, but in business. At the same time they have been under an ever increasing pressure to identify themselves with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that...
...clearly in the interest of efficiency that the teacher should receive a stipend adequate to the needs of the civilized life, one which will enable him to give his time and thought to fulfilling the demands of his position, free from the hampering necessity of supplementing his livelihood by miscellaneous earnings. The only way in which this can be done on a large scale, and in the long run, is by an increased charge upon the student. The New Republic...
...Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million carloads of autos, trucks, parts, tires...