Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chambermaids in the student dormitories at Yale are treated even more poorly than were the twenty scrubwomen discharged recently at Harvard, a Yale senior charged in a letter to "The Yale Daily News," printed today. The Harvard scrubwomen were discharged when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Scale Commission insisted that they should receive not less than 37 cent an hour, in stead of the 35 cents paid to them...
When the searchlight was turned on Harvard's wage scale for scrubwomen, such well-known liberals as Heywood Broun and innumerable people less well-known voiced amazement at the University's stinginess. Even the CRIMSON had something to say about Harvard's ponnypinching attitude...
Although the University's close listedness still remains a generally accepted truth, it is something of a relief to discover that the wage scale for Yale's biddies is lower than Harvard's. Apparently, two of America's most reputable educational institutions are fighting neck and neck for the "honor" of being the stingiest employers in the country...
...fact that there are only about 20 members in the graduating class this year, the festivities will be on a smaller scale than usual. The extreme sliminess of numbers is noticeable for the first time because this year's Senior class is the first class to graduate having entered the School under the rulings made in 1926 requiring at least two years' attendance in a college of Arts and Sciences for admission to the Dental School...
...airmail and passenger operators, the Watres Airmail Bill last week was passed by the House of Representatives. If approved by the Senate, the law will: 1) Change the present unequal compensation to operators from a "per pound" basis, which varies from 78? to $3, to a uniform "per mile" scale, the Postmaster General contracting for a fixed space in each plane; 2) provide for mail contracts with passenger lines, now losing heavily; 3) protect the equities of airmail operators who have pioneered their present lines...