Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another matter the results of Senator Wagner's efforts were immediate. In the debate on the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill which occupied the Senate most of last week, Senator Wagner came out flatly for an amendment to require the payment of the prevailing wage scale on work relief projects. The President had proposed and the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved with qualifications, setting men to work at $50 a month or thereabouts-roughly twice what they would get as a dole. The Administration had two reasons for its stand: 1) workers must...
From Cincinnati, earnest Socialist Norman Thomas broadcast: "The most wretched conditions on any large scale anywhere to be found in exploited America, exist in [the] cotton country. . . . These share croppers and casual day laborers of the cotton fields are the Forgotten Men of the New Deal. AAA has 'practically washed its hands of them and their problems...
...Robert Nathan, this picture lacks the satirical implications of its original but somehow achieves a simple and disarming charm which is likely to prove valuable at the boxoffice. A delicate and sympathetic, if somewhat disingenuous, reflection of the funny side of the Depression, it rates high in the scale of recreation-ground cinema, well above Central Park, a small notch below Zoo in Budapest. Good shot: a zoo attendant (Stepin Fetchit) advertising to the furniture dealer the excellence of the meat he feeds the lions...
...that he was off to South America, teaching at Yale between expeditions. In 1915 the American Geographical Society called him to Manhattan as its director. The yarn-swappers of the Explorers' Club came to know him as a vigorous organizer who raised $350,000 to finish a large-scale map of Hispanic America. In 1931 he was elected president of the International Geographical Union...
...expect to reach the scale of proficiency that the House System has attained. Nevertheless, the organization we propose would equate the two factions--resident and non-resident--more equally...