Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obedience to Congress, "Pink" Harrington last week: 1) warned subordinate officials to shun local, State and national politics, on pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19 per month to $31.20 in rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics...
...Month ago, bristling with optimism about the chances of no war, Ham Fish sailed (as leader of the U. S. delegation of four Senators and 24 Representatives) for the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Oslo (TIME, Sept. 13, 1937). By the time he reached Berlin, he had to admit having talked with some people (including British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and French Premier Edouard Daladier) who thought there might be a war. "I myself," he said, "do not believe it, or my family would not be here." If invited to arbitrate the Danzig dispute, he said, he would...
...roofs to sleep under-but of samovars. There is only one shop in all Moscow, said the Bolshevik, which will make, resurface or solder samovars. So busy are that shop's tinkers that they can accept orders only for 150 on the 13th day of each month...
...Charles Watson and his twin brother, William George, each five-foot-four, alike as two Dromios, set out from home one summer morning in 1889 to look for their first jobs. They met at noon at "Four Corners" in downtown Rochester, N. Y. Rob had landed a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Bill had a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Commercial National Bank...
Livestock producers think they could get higher prices for their best beef if the public knew what it was buying, demanded quality meats. Today the Government grades not more than 9% of U. S. slaughtered beef. Producers want it all graded. Month ago new Government grading standards became effective. Last week the American Institute of Cooperation (booster of farmers' cooperative associations) met in Chicago, heard about the new rules from an expert: Sleeter Bull, Associate Professor of Meats, University of Illinois...