Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim little knowledge of the system for distributing tickets to the big games, but considering the matter from a common-sense point of view, it would seem that the unquestioned precedence of the Harvard graduate in this regard over the two lower undergraduate classes is unjustified...
...Lower Wages Disagreeable...
...also disagreeable to have to accept lower wages after having received higher. This is a most important factor in the present situation. Any industry will start up whenever its managers think that they can pay expenses out of receipts. When industries run, men are employed. Until the managers see some way of paying expenses out of receipts, industries will not run and men will remain unemployed. Here we have the crux of the whole question...
...expense. Similarly, if wages could be reduced, they could pay expenses without any reduction of freight rates. Again, if the wages of one kind of labor could be reduced, it might not be necessary to reduce the wages of any other kind. Again, if capital could be had at lower interest rates, if competent managers could be found who would work for lower salaries, if enterprisers could be found who could be lured into undertaking the risks of business by lower profits, etc., etc., more industries could run than are now running. But this multiplication of "its" does not solve...
...done itself proud. Despite the fact that "The Teaser" is strangely reminiscent of "Lady Windemere's Fan" and has few new situations we liked it. The plot deals with the arrival in the Wyndham home of Teddy Wyndham's niece, Annie Barton--a girl brought up in a "lower starta", of life than Teddy and his friends. Of course, the girl is quite "impossible" with her "gentleman friend" and her manner of captivating all men with whom she comes in contact. There is a scandal--complications--but in the fourth act the play ends, as most audiences wish...