Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chambermaids in the student dormitories at Yale are treated even more poorly than were the twenty scrubwomen discharged recently at Harvard, a Yale senior charged in a letter to "The Yale Daily News," printed today. The Harvard scrubwomen were discharged when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Scale Commission insisted that they should receive not less than 37 cent an hour, in stead of the 35 cents paid to them...
...course, these women have a certain uncertain income from tips at Christmas and in June, but it is doubtful if this would raise the average wage more than a cent or two. Again, it might be pointed out that women in New Haven shops and factories often earn less than this, but this is a very slender apology for the university's policy...
When the searchlight was turned on Harvard's wage scale for scrubwomen, such well-known liberals as Heywood Broun and innumerable people less well-known voiced amazement at the University's stinginess. Even the CRIMSON had something to say about Harvard's ponnypinching attitude...
Although the University's close listedness still remains a generally accepted truth, it is something of a relief to discover that the wage scale for Yale's biddies is lower than Harvard's. Apparently, two of America's most reputable educational institutions are fighting neck and neck for the "honor" of being the stingiest employers in the country...
...gave $172,000 to beat Democratic Nominee Smith. Mr. Jameson is president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., a director of many another insurance company and bank, and of American Smelting & Refining Co. According to his report to the Senate, he contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon to wage his successful war against Nominee Smith in Virginia. When the Bishop's Anti-Smith Committee of Virginia reported its political expenditures to the House it listed: "Received from James Cannon Jr., donation of E. C. Jameson of New York, $17,000." Declared Representative Tinkham: "On the face of the record...