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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does not increase the price of goods. It does entail a burden on the worker, but we have simultaneously endeavored to better the lot of the worker's family by setting up a workmen...
...generally have preserved an antlike silence, an antlike industry. The late Henry Watson Fowler was no exception. Known on both sides of the Atlantic to scholars of all degrees as the author of Modern English Usage, most useful and authoritative of argument-settlers, and as an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography (60 pp.) by his life-long friend, George Gordon Coulton...
...competition for this board will be of uncertain duration, depending upon the candidate's ability, achievement, and interest. In no case will it be shorter than three weeks, nor longer than eight weeks. Each candidate will be expected to write two editorials a night. Men will be taken on the board when they have demonstrated their ability to write tersely and coherently, to select and discuss subjects intelligently, and shown an interest in perfecting the editorial pages of the CRIMSON...
Wisconsin. Beginning his second term as Governor but his first as a Progressive, Philip Fox La Follette asked his Legislature to up the State's 1935-37 budget by nearly $17,000,000. Objects: school aid, old age pensions, shorter hours and higher pay for State employes...
...been theologically roomy. Likewise it has been on the side of poor people against the rich. In the U. S., decades ago, Methodists began preaching Prohibition, that great reform which was to save people from the brewers and saloonkeepers. Methodists also espoused labor's causes - collective bargaining, shorter hours, unemployment insurance- when to do so seemed downright radical. Today in the perceptible leftward swing of U. S. religion, Methodism as a whole has gone farther than any other single sect. Some recent examples...