Word: white-collar
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...country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends on paying less than living wages has any right to continue. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry: by workers I mean all workers-the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -I mean the wages of decent living...
Jurors were then picked, sworn in. The prosecution concentrated on rural talesmen. The defense wanted young white-collar men who might have come in contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
...time when so large a number of all classes are unable to support themselves, the "white-collar" workers should receive the same consideration as everyone else. This is particularly true of the recent university product. There are already men with dependents to do his work, and ho has yet to demonstrate his ability and value to the community. Furthermore, the very best men in these fields can find employment even today. There are still positions for research workers, and physicians, provided they are at the top of their class. The time for special "unemployment insurance for jobless graduates" is passed...
...greeter was John Cabbage, poet-laureate of New York City's street sweepers, garbage collectors, scowmen, dump tenders, sewage engineers, and white-collar employes of the city's Department of Sanitation. His salute was addressed to, and appeared last week in, the first issue of D S, a new monthly magazine of the department. Like New York's prison keepers' house-organ, On Guard, it is unique...
This step, which is not new in the history of the Business School, has many advantageous features. Depletions in the school roster may thus be filled and the budget aided correspondingly. To white-collar men who have sufficient permanent income or family support such a session will provide the training and prestige of the Business School course; such men will also be spared the demoralizing effect of long, unsuccessful search for positions and its attendant mental stagnation...