Word: paying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army thought certain qualified men would profit by further training, it might send them off to college and keep them on the pay roll at the same time. The objection to the present scheme is that the army gains recruits at the expense of our colleges. The safe answer to such a plan is Princeton's: "that while there are no scholarships to be set aside for the purpose, money is available to pay the expenses of qualified enlisted men." Long before the army ever thought of this device, money was available for qualified men. Offering it on these terms...
...first thoughts are for his stomach, especially in these days when his pocket book is scarcely fat enough to fill it. When we must pay thirty cents for a ham sandwich, ten cents for a cup of coffee, and twenty cents for a piece of Washington Pie, we wonder if the days of highway robbery have entirely disappeared...
...strike aims a sharp divergence from this characteristic; while ostensibly their demands are for higher wages, it is felt that the real issue is nationalization of the mines. The government some time ago offered to submit this question to an impartial tribunal. The miners refused. Lloyd George offered to pay them higher wages on condition that they bring production totals up to past records. The miners refused. Their leaders tried to counsel them. The miners would not listen...
...inevitable that in times of a general drop in prices, goods must be sold at a reduced profit or even at a loss, because the change in wages tends to lag behind the change of commodity rates. Hence the producer is forced to pay a higher wage than the lowered price of his commodity justifies. The only way to prevent this, is to keep prices up to the high level...
Please stop playing favorites with nations because their governments happen to displease you; remember that history is not a bad thing, but something organic, alive, and in the making; and pay at least as much attention to the true history of today as to the facts of the past. EDWARD M. RUBIN '22. October...