Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite last fortnight's dummy vote of 99% the world last week wanted to know how many Germans Adolf Hitler really represents in his world dealings. Certain it is that the German lower middle class is solidly behind him. Furtive opposition honeycombs the workers whose trades-unions have been destroyed, the aristocracy (excluding the Army), the upper middle class, 6,000,000 pre-Hitler Communists and the professions. Many of these have joined the Storm Troops for protective coloration, shout "Heil Hitler!" with the rest. In the Nation, U. S. Leftist magazine, Louis Fischer reported the widespread opposition...
Incident arose from an utterly inconsequential resolution by Ellen C. Wilkinson, author of Why War?, calling on the Government to pay women the same salaries as men in the lower grades of the Civil Service. In the course of the desultory debate, M. P.'s indebted to the women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting...
Good Things. Under Mayor Hoan, Milwaukee has grown famed as a paragon of cities. Among cities of more than 500,000 population, only Baltimore has a lower per-capita cost of government, only St. Louis has a lower per-capita bonded indebtedness. Throughout Depression it has kept notably solvent, has not once defaulted on a payroll or interest payment. It has set up an amortization fund which at the present rate of growth will wipe out its entire bonded indebtedness by 1943, put all city operations on a cash basis...
...Senate last week had to choose between an estimable old gentleman and a dubious ditch. The ditch was the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal across Florida, on which President Roosevelt has already spent $5,400,000 of relief funds and which truck and fruit farmers fear may turn lower Florida into a semidesert (TIME, Feb. 17). The old gentleman was Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, who has been in the Senate longer than any other member, except Idaho's Borah and South Carolina's Smith...
Cost of bonding, paid by the employer, varies, but in general six or more employees, bonded for from $30,000 up to $500,000 in the aggregate cost from 27½? to 55? per $100 per year. The greater the bond, the lower the cost per $100. Thus $100,000 of protection would cost, in annual payments, $330. On this basis, embezzlement is rated as about a 300-1 chance. Pawnbrokers come high at $1 per 100. So do real estate agents and property management companies at $1.50 per $100. Fidelity insurance brings in about 40% of National...