Word: 4o
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Lord Stanhope appeared early at No. 10 Downing Street for a 4O-minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
Last winter Mary Norton and the Labor Committee set to work producing a new bill. Essentially milder than its original, it called for a 25?-an-hour minimum wage, a 44-hour maximum week, graded to a 4O?-an-hour minimum over the next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised...
...basic provisions of the old contract were retained-seniority, paid vacations, a basic $5 a day, a 4O-hour week with time-and-a-half for overtime. But instead of running for a full year, the new contract may be reopened on ten days' notice by either side, and if no agreement is reached within the next 20 days, the contract lapses. In effect, this means that U. S. Steel may, at any time, ask the union to accept a wage cut, and if the union does not accept, proceed to put the wage cut into effect. Under...
...into their classrooms. Des Moines' two big sister dailies, the Register and the Tribune, recently offered Iowa teachers $500 in prizes for ideas on "How to Use the Daily Newspaper in the Schools." Out of the suggestions received, the Register & Tribune culled the best for publication in a 4O-page booklet.* By last week Iowa teachers, principals and professors had written in for some 7,500 copies...
King Features announced a 4O-installment version of The Short Bible, abbreviated, rearranged and done into modern English by Professors Edgar J. Goodspeed and J. M. P. Smith of the University of Chicago (TIME...