Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the $25,000 offered him to play baseball for less than six months this year, British soccer players were engaged in a British version of the American holdout. With businesslike dignity they demanded that their minimum wage be raised from ?4 to ?5 ($25) a week and their maximum from...
...trial cost both sides a total of some $3,000,000. Maximum penalty possible is a $5,000 fine for each of the companies and $5,000 or a year in jail for each of the men. But before anyone pays a dollar in fines or serves a day in jail the Supreme Court will probably have to have...
...striking aspect of the agreement is not that it has been reached, but that throughout the negotiations a maximum of courtesy and respect has prevailed on both sides. Not once did the University treat the union leaders with hostility; not once did the speakers in Cypress Hall cast doubt on the honesty or sincerity of the University. In the absolute harmony between employer and employee is proof that Harvard has once again adapted itself to changing times, and once again set an example for institutions of its kind...
Nevertheless, Chautemps continued trying to set up a Cabinet which would "group a maximum of goodwill around the essential principles approved by the electors." After pondering this subtle formula, at length, the Socialists in an all-night session of their National Council at first voted- in effect reversing their previous stand- to participate in any Government, even one lacking Communists, committed to a Popular Front program. Later the Socialists changed their minds, promised Chautemps only their votes in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite the tenuousness of this support, he made it this week the basis of a projected all-Radical...
Anyone between 15 and 60 who wishes to insure himself against accidents for 24 hours-maximum indemnity, $7,500-will drop a quarter in the Insurograph and pull a lever. A glass panel slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...