Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three months of bickering the Chicago Orchestral Association and the Chicago Federation of Musicians came to terms last week, ended all threats of the symphony disbanding (TIME, March 14). Swart James C. Petrillo, the Union's hard-fisted president, finally agreed to a minimum weekly wage scale of $75 as against this year's $90; a cut in the number of concerts from 126 to 100. The Orchestra is to have the choice of the number of players over & above a minimum of 87. (This year 97 musicians played under Conductor Frederick August Stock...
...other side of the scale: Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal fearless and intelligent attack on Chapel, who was seeking to besmirch the university's fair name; the Columbia Spectator's justified attack on corruption in the college's dining halls; The N. C. Technician's attack on what it deemed an unwise gubernatorial policy...
...Practically from the start the business prospered on the personal vanity of socialites, nouveaux riches, politicians, tycoons and stage folk. For a time "romeiked" was a common word meaning "compiled in scrapbooks." If Brother Henry was not rich when he died in 1903, it was due to his lavish scale of living...
...University, that once again a Jonah is being swallowed up in Wales. Who in History 1 will so well uphold the traditions established by Professor Merriman in the first half, including the excellent one of making the late-coming Freshman acutely conscious of his low place in the scale of things? After this morning there will be only impressions of a booming voice, a collar, and many lectures that made dead men dance and gave that sense of the past which is the best gift of the historian. The Vagabond can offer no better advice to his readers than...
...owed it by little known Continental Investment Co. of Liechtenstein and $15,000,000 by Garanta Co. of Hol land. Apparently both these companies used the money to some extent to buy properties for Swedish Match Co. They paid interest to International Match on a sliding scale, the scale being just large enough so that International Match would appear to earn its dividend. One year the "interest" went as high...