Word: underpaid
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...Interstate Commerce Commission held hearings in Cincinnati to determine the legality of 10?-a-parcel porter service, Red Cap Clinton McDuffy testified that on one occasion he had been unconsciously underpaid (50? for a 70? service) by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat of mighty New York Central. Widely read, a quoter of Spengler and Ortega y Gasset. he wrote an authoritative book on railroads, another on anthracite. His motto: "Be audacious." His battlecry: "Management is notoriously underpaid...
...House of Commons rose the Prime Minister's Lord Privy Seal, Socialist Clement Richard Attlee. Leader of the British Labor Party. As usual Mr. Attlee looked like a small, nervous, underpaid schoolteacher who is falling behind in his rent. He clutched a single sheet of paper which contained the whole of an Emergency Powers Defense Bill just drafted by the Churchill Cabinet. The greatness of the hour gave unimpressive, often quarrelsome Clement Richard Attlee stature in the first really big moment of his career...
Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...
Harvard men carry their own bags in railroad stations "as a proof of virility according to Haywood Broun '10, well known columnist in an article in defense of the underpaid station...