Word: decentered
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...case of families who need actual subsistence, of putting them on the dole or putting them to work. They do not want to go on the dole, and they are 1,000 per cent right. We agree, therefore, that we must put them to work-work for a decent wage...
...Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. . . . There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not Labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human life...
...resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
...South could have a decent living standard and still grow better cotton, at less cost, than Brazil, the Argentine, India,-if Southern farmers could buy production necessities as Brazilians, Indians et al. can, and if they could sell in friendly rather than hostile markets...
After embarrassing the cinema industry for three weeks with its display of dirty doings, Hollywood's Astor Case was brought to a decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify...