Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income brackets can hardly be called peons. In recent years, however, the national sport has received more and more of its income from radio and television. As such, it has now come within the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce laws. And the minor league wages still remain low; Chandler's statement obviously did not include minor leaguers whose paychecks range down to $1200 yearly. Beyond that, there is a good legal point; does a high wage scale excuse virtual slavery...
...speakers, including Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, the moderator, pointed out that no matter what particular field a prospective writer is interested in, a long pull with low wages must elapse before the top is reached. Eight to 12 years of newspaper work is the average of the Nieman Fellows...
During the course of the year, every conceivable facet of the school's decadence is ruthlessly assaulted. Guy Hudson does most of the attacking, although the high point of the story (but the low point for the aging Principal, Mr. Pilkey) is the resignation of Judge Hopkins V as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in protest to Mr. Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover...
...sunny day last week, President Truman lolled on a Key West beach, chatting with Chief Justice Fred Vinson. A Navy blimp buzzed in low. Looking up, Harry Truman saw five White House press photographers taking pictures. He gave them a big wave and a grin...
...Trippes weekend at an eight-room French Provincial-style house in a patch of woods near Greenwich, Conn., hard by the Round Hill Club where "Tripper," as some golf partners call him, plays up to 36 holes a day, usually shooting in the low 80s. In the summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter...