Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board $1 a week. In his spare time he hung out in a Greek coffee shop, whose proprietor used words like "status quo," "ukase," gave attentive Stoyan the valuable advice that "you must learn to read, write and speak English in one operation." He told him to read signs, wrappers on packages, etc., for, said the Greek, "English is spread all over, like a rug, like a picture. . . . And behind it is America...
...when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad peace should last until December...
...signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied by U. M. W., NLRB, and the Department of Justice...
Author Johnston does not charge that any political quid pro quo was promised to Jimmy's clients. But "some corporations which have given Jimmy insurance have been lucky; some corporations which have denied him insurance have been unlucky...
...people intelligent enough to be able to write should hold to such an error. What do they think he is? A conservative? A radical? A revolutionist? A fascist? What nonsense! A radical, as everybody but your correspondents knows, is a man who proposes drastic changes in the status quo, and the establishment of new institutions, new measures, to correct existing evils. ... A revolutionist differs from a radical in believing that the change will be convulsive and violent, and also in believing that a dictatorship will be necessary. . . . When a reactionary advocates drastic changes in the status quo, and proposes...