Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, something must be done to prevent a recurrence of yesterday's horrible experience. When church services are suspended, men flee from their homes, the end of the world is predicted, and even college boys faint, then something must be done. We must not despair of reaching a constructive, workable solution; the people of Mars want peace...
...some 11,000,000 workers employed in interstate commerce less than 25? an hour. The statutory work week became 44 hours. It was not illegal to work a longer week; it-was simply more expensive for employers, who thereafter would have to pay 1½ the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard...
When it became apparent that a reduction was coming despite these arguments, the companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot...
...example Mutual Life of New York announced that on new policies its guaranteed interest rate to beneficiaries would be reduced from 3% to 2½%, that dividends accumulating at interest will get 2½% instead of 3%, that premiums on endowment annuity policies will increase. Last week Northwestern Mutual warned: "All life insurance companies are making important changes in their contracts. . . . These changes may mean an increase in price ... of insurance...
...snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan's crushing dead-pan mockery of pomp & circumstance. Only Actor Bruce knows the secret, plays Gilbert with a polished griffness that the old boy himself would have acknowledged with a snort...