Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief reason for hanging Pierre Laval: the Premier's drastic wage slashes, affecting huge numbers of already underpaid Frenchmen. Chief reason for not hanging Laval: his equally drastic efforts to force down food prices, rents, etc., along with wages in a great "Equality of Sacrifice" to keep the French franc at its present gold value. Last week Premier Laval, who locked up his Cabinet for 14 hours while the Ministers wrangled over and finally approved his first 28 emergency decrees (TIME, July 29), locked them up again and got action on some 40 more decrees. As before, these were...
...refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature Author Hagedorn seems prone to exaggerate...
...well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover many schools closed, others laboring under the handicaps of classes of fifty or sixty, shorter terms, limited curricula, underpaid and unpaid teachers. Every community faces a situation involving one, two, or perhaps all of these difficulties...
...Your very magnificence is bought at the expense of the underpaid and sacrificing toil of thousands. I'm not sure that North Carolina can afford your magnificence. It's a question of whether the common welfare is to be sacrificed for the opulence of the few. . . . Mr. Duke was lacking in social insight. There can be no doubt that the power he developed is now the rightful property of the people of North and South Carolina and the surrounding States...
...father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back on her disastrously is one-of the fine things in the book. Joel is condemned to live with Grandmother Harris. She burns his Shakespeare, she heats him, she drives him into the arms of Lettie. The underpaid maid-of all work. In despair at his iniquity Jeel appeals to Jenny. Jenny money seventy-five dellars from a Junior Leaguer on the main street of Fall River and sends it to him. He is about to escape when he learns Lettie is with child. Heroic little Joel gives...