Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over U. S. industry is naturally least acceptable to the South, whose industrial platform is that its climate and general living conditions diminish living costs and hence make equitable a lower wage rate than the North. Although the provisions of the bill were flexible enough to allow for regional differentials, such differentials might well be too small to suit Southerners. Of the Rules Committee's 14 members, four are Republicans, five Southern Democrats. When the House Labor Committee turned the bill...
...apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
...Catholic Futurist, not tied to any age," said an aging but still voluble divine in Manhattan last week. The Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 69, was retiring after 26 years of service at the Episcopal Church of St. Marks-in-The Bouwerie on the lower East Side...
...lower wage groups as mostly part-time workers the maids will receive 38 cents an hour for regular work, 43 cents for vacation cleaning. "Biddies" will have gained by this move a flat increase of six cents...
...happy combination of the theoretical and the practical aspects of training is the only medium whereby effective management of the many branches of government may be achieved. Civil Service examinations in many of the lower brackets are a step towards putting positions which require knowledge and training in one specific field in the hands of those who possess them. The Littauer School proposes not to replace these, nor even to give the training necessary to pass them, and it is designed neither to supply theoretical and general education, nor to omit these from its curriculum...