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Word: waging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union defended their move by claiming that waitresses and cooks find it hard to get a job during the summer. "We have to eat 365 days in the year, and because of this Harvard employees should have a higher wage level. The University pays its officers a yearly salary whether students are here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...Automatic increases" are by no means always justified. In general, we prefer to have the University economize, if necessary, in the salaries of the highest paid ranks in order to enhance the security and provide a better living wage for its younger men, and to maintain in the higher ranks the sense of competition which is so keen in the lower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCERPTS FROM THE TENURE REPORT | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

When Elmer Andrews took office last year as the first U. S. Wage & Hour Administrator, he vowed that industry should be gentled into its new harness. Elmer Andrews last week finally reached for the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Elmer's Teeth | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Wassily W. Leontief, assistant professor of Economics and Dr. Machlup of Tufts then brought the wage increase problem to the fore and questioned the ease with which taxes could support the increased interest rates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECONOMISTS QUESTION INCREASED SPENDING | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, speaking at the bi-weekly meeting of the Foreign Policy Association Saturday. He maintained that the dictatorships would soon collapse before such a coalition of the democratic powers since these "gangster" countries could not hope to wage a successful war against a force as strong as this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Alliance With Democracies Urged by Speaker | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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