Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venture, invested under Couzens' name. He too invested-$900 savings, $100 borrowed from an aunt. Later Ford made him general manager. By 1914 he was drawing a $150,000-a-year salary, large dividends. The same year he advised, obtained Ford's $s-a-day minimum wage. In 1915 he quarreled with Ford's pacifism, resigned, sold his original $1,000 investment for a $30,000,000 check which for days he carried in his pocket, unbanked, to show friends. At that time he was Detroit's first Street Railway Commission chairman...
...Labor. In his speech to the American Federation of Labor convention at Boston, President Hoover reverted to the Depression and its effect upon employment. He recited the White House agreements of last year (no wage cuts, no strikes), declared that these "have been carried out in astonishing degree."** Public works and private construction, he said, have thus far this year risen $500,000,000 over last year; whereas there were some 2,000 labor disputes in the last slump, there have been less than 300 in this. Declared the President...
...salary for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The strength of a university depends to a large extent, on the ability and calibre of the faculty. This strength can not be maintained unless professors are paid enough to make teaching at Harvard attractive, and unless instructors receive a wage which allows them further study and preparation. Both of these aims have been accomplished...
...Germany faces several extraordinary problems. Her resources are low, and her unemployed number 3,000,000. In this country the wages of one worker may support two people; in Germany the wage scale has been depressed to the lowest point. Russian dealings in wheat might conceivably boost German industry; but it is useless to make any predictions as to when she will emerge from the present worldwide economic depression. Secretary Lamont stated that reparations have been removed from politics, which is inherently nonsense; all five German parties suggested a change in the Young Plan at the last election...
...intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe...