Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of my Ministers, any provision for unemployed persons should not only afford material assistance but should also be designed to maintain their morale and fitness to resume work when opportunities can be found. My government intend to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with unemployment insurance and with the treatment of those unable to obtain work, and the considerations I have mentioned will be borne in mind in framing their proposals...
Speech Attacked. Wrathful Laborites saw, of course, that what the Cabinet meant by George V's reference to "assistance . . . designed to maintain . . . morale and fitness to resume work." was to express the National Government's resolve to maintain the "means test" and other checks on the British Dole...
...years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
Traditionally U. S. doctors, like U. S. farmers, are pugnaciously individualistic. Their practice has been on a personal doctor-&-patient basis. To maintain this, doctors have banded themselves into one of the most powerful and beneficial institutions on the U. S. scene-The American Medical Association. But the A. M. A. has been unable to prevent inequalities in the distribution of medical services to the entire population or of payments to all the doctors. Complaints have alarmed both doctors and sociologists...
...financial straits of The Lampoon, printed a supposed confession from its president that it would have to shut up shop unless it got help. Especially affecting was the gravity with which "The Crime," as the wicked call it, shed tears over the thwarting of The Lampoon's efforts "to maintain a high standard of clean, wholesome humor." The Crime must be trying to hide its own financial difficulties by inventing some for The Lampoon. He quotes from a letter which he attributes to the business agent of The Crimson...