Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ordinarily I pay no attention to campaign canards. . . . In the interest of truth I am compelled to deny that I ever urged or suggested that Mrs. Willebrandt discuss any man's religion . . . nor did I ever insert any religious comment in any speech she ever made, nor was any manuscript of hers containing any attack on any man's religion or raising the religious issue ever submitted to or scrutinized by me, nor did any manuscript of her Springfield speech which came to headquarters contain any such expression as 'Go back to your pulpits and preach this...
...Southern industrial leaders are still clinging to the discarded and discredited wage theories and working conditions of the pre-War period. It is still believed and practiced that low rates of pay are synonymous with low labor costs. . . . The labor union has not been accepted as a permanent and inevitable institution in modern industrial life...
...mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway, the unions aren't as strong...
...first and only conciliatory point the Yorkshireman said that there was nothing wrong with the size of the sponge cake, with the total fixed by the Young Plan for Germany to pay. That part of the plan he was ready to adopt. But he objected strenuously to: 1) the scaling down of the British Empire's share in German reparations to 18%, whereas under the Spa agreement of 1923 she was to get 22%; 2) the allotment to France, Belgium and Italy of nearly all the sums "unconditionally" pledged by Germany "in kind" (i.e., in commodities like coal...
...week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...