Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share of its production to other, lower-paid localities. Having rejected this proposal, Goodrich workers also threatened to walk out if 25 supervisory employes retained plant jobs normally held by ordinary workers. Last week both sides accepted a compromise. The union agreed to halved vacation pay. Goodrich agreed to maintain its hourly scales, to give U. R. W. a written agreement...
...they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys and girls had claimed their prizes. Druggist Balaban prudently withdrew his offer. Meanwhile School Superintendent Leon Nelson Neulen sniffed: "The important thing is how long they will maintain their good behavior record...
Although the Dartmouth newspaper should by all means have complete independence, it is nevertheless apparent that it must recognize its monopoly over the daily opinions of its subscribers and maintain a position of dignity and impartiality. All college dailies should remember the fact that they are only temporarily in charge of what may be termed a community enterprise and that their value depends upon support from the students and cooperation with the administration of the college...
Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...
...Tribune, was willing to take part of the credit. Claiming similarities between the Supreme Court decision and "the briefs and arguments" presented in cases involving newspapers, the committee arrived at the conclusion that the Lovell decision "should silence those people who have been pretending that our long battle to maintain freedom of the press has been a selfish effort to maintain a special privilege...