Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Family, "with a realistic grasp of the situation, went into mourning for but three days. The nation was deprived of cinema performances for two days as a mark of minimum respect. Some hundreds of little girls came voluntarily to stand and pray outside the palace at which Death came to a Princess whose name may be translated ''Eternal Happiness...
President Wilson once called him to Washington to talk about the LaFollette Seamen's Bill. Captain Dollar didn't want to see American sailors paid a minimum wage four times higher than the minimum wage for Japanese sailors. But though the bill was passed he went on beating Japanese competition. He sent his son Stanley to Washington to bid for five boats the U. S. had built for the War. His bid ($1,125,000 each; one third cash) was more than the Pacific Mail could offer. Stanley wired back...
...from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars in other fields, like Lippman, whose Entstehung der Alchemie still lulls Harvard's chemists to sleep in the Reading Room...
...Industrial relations. Smith has made a large part of his reputation on his championship of such measures as minimum-wage laws, workmen's compensation, maternity insurance, and the eight-hour day. It is quite certain that if he were elected the Democratic party, which has acquired many a sudden interest in its time, would be off on a new adventure...
After several days of negotiations, the Wafd demanded and obtained as a minimum sop to its prestige, the resignation of Sarwat and his cabinet. Prognostications were that Nahass Pasha would again attempt to force the creation of a Wafd cabinet, and might possibly be permitted to succeed if he would convey a secret pledge of "good behavior" to Baron Lloyd...