Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than you seem willing to pay it. No one will quarrel with reasoned, documented condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment...
...Peroration of Mr. Roosevelt's sixth Annual Address brought all hands up unanimously once more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
Should the contract be accepted, the waitresses, largest single class of workers affected, will receive $18 a week, Christmas and Easter vacations at full pay. They now get $14 with vacations at half pay...
...projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...
Labor trouble at the popular rendezvous of local cafe society came to a head six weeks ago when employees struck for a 25 percent wage increase, a 48 hour week, and a vacation with pay. They went back to work two days later when representatives of employers and employees signed an agreement agreeing to submit the dispute to the State Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties...