Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5¢ an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
...Nevertheless, the embattled United Textile Workers offered to haul up the cease-firing signal for the next six months? with the proviso that it would continue organization work within the industry...
...Barnard, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve followed up President Nicholas Murray Butler's diatribe on youthful manners (TIME, Oct. 8) with these remarks to freshmen: "Perhaps the manners of girls may be better than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that...
...face of all the discouraging elements in the present situation, I nevertheless believe and assert that thus far in the history of this country the potential markets for steel have merely been tapped...
...Nevertheless, the biggest U. S. soap company and the second biggest were determined to fight it out against the third biggest, which is an important affiliate of Britain's utterly fabulous soap trust. P. & G. and Colgate had acquired the patents with an eye to competing with Lever's Rinso; but no sooner was the product on the market, said the plaintiffs, than Lever began to alter the form of Rinso, eventually hitting on practically the same process. Last week Lever contended that spray-drying was an old, old idea, that its own patents went back for half a century...