Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss Petrillo's favorite contention, that "canned music" has caused widespread unemployment among musicians, got harsher treatment. Said the panel flatly: "No present important unemployment of musicians exists. Two union members out of three do not depend on music for a livelihood. The union's criterion, that a member not working full time on music is unemployed, is untenable." Also, the panel concluded after 1,970 pages of testimony, radio and the phonograph record probably have not decreased employment...
...York, sitting snug, to write pieces about freedom of the press. The Prensa . . . may be suspended temporarily or permanently. Any man or woman [of it] may write something displeasing to the Government. Thereupon his or her name will be removed from the register of journalists, his or her livelihood stopped. . . . We praise the Prensa ... for the calm courage with which it faces penalty and loss defending freedom." Said the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance: "We pay tribute to a great newspaper, now even greater. Long live La Prensa...
...National governments and international organization must guarantee the rights of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities to economic livelihood . . . equal opportunity for educational and cultural development . . . political equality...
...pointed out that in the colonies, which were put under the strictest of Vichy control immediately after the fall of France, there was a large native population which remained loyal to the Vichy appointees, upon whom they depended for their livelihood...
...worried-and so doubtless it will remain until the war is over. But then, as in other countries throughout the world, a tragic era of depression may return. M.P. Harry Mc-Neil, adding more gloom to Tom Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn to sing it to the tune...