Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement is correct. There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett's, perhaps someones else) is not uncommon. Some of we wage earning Texans view Ambassador Mellon's "Big Business War Et al," not with alarm but with interest. Politically ambitious Texans tread lightly on the subject until after the vote is counted. For, Mr. Mellon is, in part, responsible for the payment of more wages, more taxes and more commissions in Texas...
Atlantic City teachers took a voluntary 10% pay cut month ago. Cincinnati teachers are almost certain to get one. Teaching appointments are now on ''unemployment emergency" basis, which means that new teachers may not be appointed if there is already a wage-earner in the family. Schools in Detroit may be closed a month early if necessary to balance the budget...
...appear as the Geneva Conference started talking about "humanizing war." If this, instead of "disarmament" or "limitation" should be set up as the Conference's goal, argued many delegates, then the Conference might succeed. Its members would all sign a "Pact Humanizing War," promising each other not to wage bacteriological warfare or chemical warfare and not to bomb civilian populations. A Pact Humanizing War, as one Geneva paper said, "might have the effect of reviving chivalry...
...measure up to "minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given 20% of his income to a landlord. Low construction costs make the present opportune for such a movement, and building materials companies with little business on hand watch eagerly for straws...
...Government aid for small wage-earners who want homes was suggested by Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects...