Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt ordered the current Ewald investigation only after much hesitation. He then instructed the Republican Attorney General to limit his special grand jury to the case in hand. Fortnight ago the jury, ignoring this restriction, sought to delve into rumors of a large-scale job-buying system in Tammany Hall. To be able to make more indictments, the jury wanted all witnesses to waive their Constitutional immunity from having their testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss...
This change, the first in 10 years, and one of the most important events of the decade for University professors, was effected last June, when the Corporation established the following regular scale of salaries for officers of instruction who are members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: professors: $8,000 minimum to $12,000 maximum; associate professors: $6,000 minimum to $7,000 maximum; assistant professors: $4,000 minimum to $5,500 maximum; instructors: maximum...
...last change in salaries, when the maximum for a full professor was established as $10,000, came in 1920, when the increase was given "in view of the rise in the cost of living." The new scale was made possible by adjustments worked out under the University's budget system, according to yesterday's official announcement...
...Germany faces several extraordinary problems. Her resources are low, and her unemployed number 3,000,000. In this country the wages of one worker may support two people; in Germany the wage scale has been depressed to the lowest point. Russian dealings in wheat might conceivably boost German industry; but it is useless to make any predictions as to when she will emerge from the present worldwide economic depression. Secretary Lamont stated that reparations have been removed from politics, which is inherently nonsense; all five German parties suggested a change in the Young Plan at the last election...
...nearby and there is also a Fundamentalist Presbyterian church but otherwise there is little choice for Protestants. Dr. Fosdick proposes to give this educated community a place of greatest beauty for worship. He also proposes to serve the social needs of the somewhat lonely metropolite. Hence on a vast scale he has built all the accessories of a community church - gymnasium, assembly room for theatricals, dining rooms, etc., etc. He will have two assistant pastors besides many a staff worker...