Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...
...unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether or not their wages should be rightfully increased. C. Pan-Germans were mightily cheered, last week, by news from Saarbrucken in the French occupied Saar. The local mayor had celebrated the decennial of French occupation, it appeared...
...most striking gesture of labor was made outside the A. F. of L. convention. Also in New Orleans met delegates of newly-formed Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares...
...superior, Minister of Justice Louis Barthou. But year followed year and M. de Paris was never raised. Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death. Last week, her confidence was vindicated. Her husband's salary was raised to a still paltry...
...lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...