Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems are left to the 48 states. When I was Governor some manufacturers threatened to leave New York and move to Pennsylvania if we passed laws regulating them. Leave such matters to the states and you get sectionalism. Before NRA, textile wages in the South were $5 a week lower than in the North. NRA reduced the differential to $2.50 and was planning to reduce it still further...
...figures are available concerning instructors holding one-year appointments. It has always been the policy of the College to maintain a healthy overturn so that the lower brackets of the Faculty will not become stagnated. This year, as in past years, a large number of these instructors are leaving for home or for new posts...
...exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope for appointment...
...Bronx cobbler, worked his way into the world's most impressive theatrical organization was long and disjointed. Twenty years ago he was a burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...
Langlois, Férol and Didier were privates in the same French regiment, but in different companies. They were not pals; until their fate brought them together they had never even spoken to each other. Langlois was an educated man, Didier was lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line...