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...principle is the five-day week. . . . Another emergency measure is the taking over of unused land and factories so the unemployed can produce for their own needs. ... A system of unemployment insurance must be set up. We Socialists urge that costs of such insurance must be borne not by underpaid workers but by industries through pensions and society through taxation...
Like Actor Cagney's previous impersonations, this one has a quality of effortless authenticity. It is not exactly acting? no one could be taught to say "bhointt up" as Cagney says it without being raised in sight of Brooklyn Bridge?but it is funny. Warner Brothers may have underpaid Actor Cagney but they have always given him good dialog. His comment after listening to a piano recital: "That guy has a great left 'hand." After bickering for two months (TIME, May 9) about his $1.600 weekly salary which he considered outrageously low, Cinemactor Cagney was last fortnight said to have...
...banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle...
...communication appeared in the Weekly and in newspapers throughout the land, Professor Henderson spoke to the Chicago meeting in much the same vein. Vast building programs, said he, result in underpaid professors. At one university, "by 1945 I suppose it will be necessary to stop paying professors' salaries altogether, so that the wages of the president, the janitors, window washers and scrubbers can be met." Professor Henderson's figures as to the proportion of university income paid to professors; at Johns Hopkins, 65 per cent; University of Chicago, 52 per cent; Princeton, 42 per cent ("pretty fair"); at Yale...
Contending that vast university building programs result in underpaid professors, Yandell Henderson, professor of Physiology at Yale recently made known percentage figures of the amounts of university incomes devoted to salary use. Yandell's figures are as follows: Johns Hopkins 65 percent; Princeton 42 per cent; Yale 43 per cent; and Harvard 23 per cent. No estimate as to the relative total income figures was named reported, but Harvard was named as the leading fire in this present lamented state of things...