Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Member after member rose in Canada's House of Commons to air a chronic complaint: Parliament is underpaid...
...then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
Stalin: "How much do they pay you?" The comrade: "Eleven rubles a week." Stalin said that he was underpaid. Said the prayerful Russian: "But you see, comrade, it's a permanent...
...Major General Clarence S. Ridley is adviser to the Persian Army. Basically his aim is to win over the army from German methods. Most of the general staff and the high-capped, swashbuckling officers have been pro-German. The soldiers themselves, garbed in tight faded khaki uniforms, are undernourished, underpaid. General Ridley is trying to put through an equitable pay system and improve organization...
Symphony musicians who think they are underpaid should "take over the conduct of Philharmonic orchestras," recommended peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, 63-year-old British symphony conductor who last fortnight married 35-year-old British Pianist Betty Humby. The wealthy laxative heir (Beecham's Pills) told a Manhattan lecture audience that music's future depended on the bounty of the rich. Warning of possible state control over the music world, he forecast that ultimately "an enlightened government will declare that it cannot support such a luxury...