Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
...employer of labor as well as a profit-making venture. Last week he noted that the number of employes in the first nine months of 1936 averaged 216,000 compared to 184,000 in the same period last year. Total payrolls for the period showed a much sharper increase (from $184,000,000 to $242,000,000). This rise was not due to higher wages (in both periods the average rate was 73? per hour) but to longer hours. Last year the average U. S. Steel employe was working less than 145 hours per month, this year nearly 170 hours...
Were Reader Schaaf's eyes sharper, they would have seen that TIME reported Norman Thomas as speaking at a "pre-Peace Day meeting" at Stanford, which observed Peace Day with a 48-hr. conference...
...Sledding. Before the Games started, major bob-sled controversies concerned: 1) the poor condition of the run, which U. S. Driver Hubert Stevens described as "unsound" and 2) the bad effect on it of U. S. runners, which are sharper than those of European bobsleds. Most romantic casualty of the week was Donna Fox, a Bronx undertaker who, after sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event...
...like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...