Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation, and payment of debts. It has been willed. In all essentials it is the product of the deliberate work of the leaders of the proletariat." Laborers will not like his diagnosis of the cause of unemployment: "Unemployment stands everywhere in exact proportion to the height of the political wage-tariffs. . . . In Russia, Japan. China, and India there is no lack of work, because there are no luxury wages." Many a disputatious citizen will take umbrage at: "One has only to glance at the figures in meetings, public-houses, processions, and riots; one way or another they are all abortions...
...passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were booted off a CWA sewer job. In the District of Columbia, skilled workers in the Navy Yard complained that their wage-88? an hour, less 15%-was under the $1.10 CWA rate. In West...
...Canary wine (or its monetary equivalent). Last week it became known that the U. S. also has a practicing poet on its payroll. His name is J. Alvin Kugelmass, onetime contributor to Scribner's and the American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed him to make poems that would teach English to New York City's immigrants and illiterates. Some of them appear...
...Harrison Cady arrived in New York to be an artist. He had an easy success. He illustrated stories for Harper's Young People, for the Brooklyn Eagle, for St. Nicholas. As a staff artist on Life for 23 years he earned more than a living wage...
...picturesque excuse passed around among Japanese politicians when they found themselves forced to make him War Minister with the powers of a quasi-Dictator (TIME, April 4. 1932). "The tiger" was Japan's Army &: Navy, then rampant with the ardor of fire-eating younger officers "to wage a purifying struggle [war] for the Divine Emperor." Last week, in view of the spectacular success in Japanese eyes of General Araki's two year ride on the tiger, the entire Far East was profoundly jolted by abrupt news that General Araki had resigned "because of ill health...