Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That it would be far cheaper to "buy peace" beforehand than to pay for such a war during and after...
...enough for even the Mediation job, but he was not expected to fight confirmation. How capable Millard Tydings is was suggested by news last week from Pennsylvania. That commonwealth deducted $750,000 from the $7,457,798 net taxable estate of the late Henry W. Breyer (ice cream) to pay fees to counsel who saved the estate $6,447,988 in Federal estate taxes. Paid to Millard Tydings' law firm...
...closed-shop contract for work onpart of Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer Glessner & friends then organized the Somerset County Independents, vowed...
...make both ends meet for two reasons. First, there is a shortage of good housing facilities at a low enough price. A minimum, decent, family apartment in Cambridge costs at least eighty dollars a month. Then, second, because of the poor Cambridge school system, teachers are forced to pay tuition for their children at private schools. This costs anywhere from one hundred and fifty to five hundred dollars per year, depending on the age of the children. Therefore, some way must be found to reduce rents or educational costs in order to enable an instructor on a salary of twenty...
...University has the whip-hand on the students. Increase wages, increase prices for meals, let the students pay. It seems to bad that a representative group of students, for example, the committee of House chairmen, could not have at least been present at the union vs. University discussions...