Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevens platform designed to implement this "cancan" motto and get the votes of everybody except Canadian businessmen was a masterpiece of New Deal paternalism. To workers it promised wage-&-hour laws; to farmers. Govern-ment markets for farm products; to the unemployed, a huge public works program. Finally Mr. Stevens promised not only to pay for all this but to pay off Canada's entire national debt in 25 years by Govern-ment exploitation of gold mines and other natural resources...
...almost bald head, and even in the act of putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi. Though the Japanese budget last week was fantastically unbalanced by $88,000,000, the Government nonetheless had Japanese essentials well enough in hand to be worried about its stand...
...times his whole family of four had to live on his $3.50 weekly wage. As he grew older Aubrey got other jobs, studied nights in a Y.M.C.A. He earned his way at Maryville College, Tenn. by painting signs and at University of Cincinnati by managing a Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy...
...Collection by NRA's skeleton of data on the past success of the codes and on the "orgy of wage slashing" that was expected to follow NRA's unmanning by the Supreme Court...
...pocketed what remained of his tuition money, chartered a small steamer, took the student body on a rollicking cruise of the Great Lakes. Back in Fort Dodge he persuaded his father to get him a job on the local paper. He loved it, swelled with pride when his weekly wage was raised from $5 to $10, finally to $15. Not until long afterward did his father tartly inform him that he had paid the wage from his own pocket. But Reporter Howey made his way to the Des Moines Daily Capital (defunct), thence on to Chicago...