Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, where living conditions and wage rates are lower than in the North, was cast by nature in the role of antagonist to wage-&-hour legislation. Hence last week's fight was conducted mainly along sectional lines. Leaders of the opposition were Sam McReynolds of Chattanooga, who predicted that the Bill would "put the life and death struggle of industry in the hands of Madam Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that...
Since each ballot was printed with two names (the name of a candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...
...find was announced which may either clarify the situation or obfuscate it further, and is certain to be argued about. Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigsvald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, had found on the banks of the Solo River in Java several teeth, a lower jaw and skull fragments of a humanoid creature which he took to be considerably older than Pithecanthropus, and therefore the oldest human or subhuman relic ever discovered. The lower jaw was "very heavy, with large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most primitive human types." The position...
Roomette fares are to be approximately 40% above lower berth charges, but lower than the rates now charged for bedroom cars. Sample: Chicago-New York lower berth, $6.00; Section $8.40; Bedroom $10.80; Roomette, $8.40. If the increase in fares applied for in Washington last week by the Pullman Co. is granted, these rates will be increased...
...great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational hum. "Der iss an opera going on. It iss a good opera; you might like...