Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hers has caused the separation. It was my wife's opinion that alimony curtailment was much harder on the woman, who had grown to expect it, than diminished income was to the man. She viewed with some alarm the prerogative of judges in this State to scale down alimony payments, believing that for some men it would simply mean reducing the wife's income in the same manner that they would cut their cook's pay, and with the Depression to use as an excuse in both cases...
...means of a Federal Control Board consisting of four members of the Cabinet and an executive chairman. Through their trade associations a majority of each branch of industry was to draw up agreements to ration production, fix prices, eliminate cut-throat competition, set working hours, establish a fair wage scale. The Federal Control Board would approve such agreements as were in the public interest. Others would be ordered revised or scrapped. The anti-trust laws would be waived to permit each agreement to become effective. Minorities in each industry which tried to buck majority agreements would be whipped into line...
Really a World's Fair it is to be. France, viewing it as a rival to her summer tourist trade, is not merely ignoring the Chicago doings but last week opened on a grand scale her Paris industrial fair in competition. Germany, having declined to participate, was last week reported thinking of sending over her chief propagandist, li'ttle Paul Joseph Goebbels (see p. 21). Chicago, where 50,000 Jews demonstrated against Adolf Hitler last week, made known that no German envoy would be received officially...
...assigning many Freshmen to rooms above their price range, the committee has pursued the only course open to it under the prevailing scale of rents. The University faces a serious problem with some of the most expensive singles but due to the large size of the class of 1936 the vacancies will probably be no more numerous than has been the case this year...
...submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism by Masters. Once the Houses have been forced into a position of social equality, it should be possible to return to the intrinsically more desirable system of allowing each Freshman to apply for the House of his choice...