Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored. But one man, Clerk Edwin Evans of the General Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand alone among the 60,000 Government workers in Washington." His points were that the "Welch bill, containing the $300 minimum...
...House, Wisconsin's Berger, lone Socialist, introduced a bill to raise the minimum Federal wage to $2,000. The Committee pondered...
...Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum of scribblings and erasures, the single typewritten manuscript in which her works make their initial and dangerously modest appearance. A person as mercurial and far more alive than those whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom...
Utterance. People who wonder what Candidate Hoover stands for in a political way can educe the following from his public utterances (usually made with a minimum of enthusiasm...
...Childs. Other stockholders complained of "stores fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs' name; "water should be served with meals as in the past;" "Childs should advertise;" Childs' prices were too high; the New Year's Eve (1928) $1 minimum check "did the company more harm than good...