Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General was not specific. Close listeners to his program speech detected a lack of program. Jokingly he said that he was "perfectly willing to equip our army with knives and paper shields, provided only our neighbors do the same." Seriously he promised no further tax-upping, no further Federal wage-cutting, greater freedom of the press and other pleasant things. "Joyous co-operation on the part of all classes," he declared, would enable him to keep these promises and he warned the Communists not to misbehave...
...percent who found work from other teaching institutions was $1276 a year, while the Harvard. vard graduates who secured jobs were receiving $2017, $17 higher than last year's average salary. Salaries for men who have received their Doctor's degree rose to over &6000, while the lowest wage was as much...
Hessian Hills parents meet fortnightly for discussion, monthly for work about the school. At their last meeting they questioned Dr. George Sylvester Count's of Teachers College about his proposal that school teachers "indoctrinate" their pupils with liberalism. Of the same intellectual bent if not in the same wage group, the Hessian Hills parents contribute more to their children's teaching than most parents...
...significance of this for the college man is important. It means that the average wage for men in the professions must, in the long run, go down. Only a very few top-notchers will continue to receive the high salaries. The time may eventually come when there will be little to choose, financially, between the professional and non-professional careers. Some economists are already predicting that the day is not far distant when the average lawyer, with twenty years of schooling behind him, will got no larger wage than the average plumber...
...which re-elected Mr. Green for his ninth term, went strongly on record as "opposed to all forms of so-called racketeering within or without the labor movement." Declared the convention: "More and more do we find those of criminal tendencies and unconcerned in the well being of the wage-earners endeavoring to gain control of our trade unions and under its cloak promote selfish if not criminal purposes...