Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved squabble over the question of "equal pay for equal work" (as differentiated from wage scales based on merit or length of service), the disagreement originated in Uneeda's Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery...
...Tokyo, pink with pride over his new certificate of merit in the art of jiujitsu, Chuyu Ota, 19, set out to throw chance passers-by met by night in the street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert...
...event which promises to become a tradition, is the annual House feast on the anniversary of Charles W. Eliot's birthday, March 20. This year President Conant and Mr. John Finley, editor of the New York Times, addressed the merry gathering and it is expected that speakers of like merit will be procured every year...
...been said that either too complete praise or vituperation withdraws all merit from a criticism. We hestitate to withdraw all worth from our review of "The Little Friend" now at the Fine Arts, nevertheless we intend to adopt an attitude of complete admiration. In all the welter of gigantic, colossal, insignificant movies, it is a real pleasure to praise one that is not planned on a grand scale, makes no pretensions to greatness, yet in yet very sincerity, in the dramatic power of a graceful little girl, reaches the heights...
...next scene. Excellent photography characterizes the piece. In fact, the photography and incidental music both are patterns which Hollywood well might emulate. All in all, it is a work of art in typical British-Gaumont goed taste. Directed by Berthold Viertel, Miss Nova Pilbeam reaches dramatic heights which merit the attention of every movie-goer. Whether or not you'll love her, as we do, you'll appreciate...