Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act...
Most U. S. employers were in no danger. Of the 11,000,000 employed in industries under the Act, U. S. statisticians last week figured that only 750,000 (a large proportion in Southern, lumber, garment, fertilizer industries) received less than 25? an hour. Twice as many, about 1,500,000 employes, work more than 44 hours. In future years the standards will grow stricter: beginning October 24, 1939 30? & 42 hours; October 1940 30? & 40 hours; October 1945 40? and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying...
Last week Wages & Hours had received 45,000 inquiries from employers and workers who wanted to know whether they come under the standards, whether the U. S. has another NRA. Mr. Andrews made it clear that: 1) the Act resembles NRA in purpose, is wholly different in method. Chief difference: NRA standards were established and applied (with Federal supervision) by industry Code Authorities, whereas the bases for Wage & Hour standards are written into the statute...
...mayor of Philadelphia. Now he is running for the U. S. Senate, sole candidate of a "Pathfinder Party," excoriating the Wagner Act and the C. I. O. Without party organization, without campaign funds, he motors 200 miles a day in a sound-truck fashioned like a railroad locomotive. In it he and four friends (two of them sound engineers), carrying their lunches, draw up on hilltops overlooking towns, turn on a magnavox contraption powered by compressed air, and while the populace marvels, Candidate Naugle hurls his thundering political imprecations for miles across the Pennsylvania wilderness...
Referring to his Royal House, Monseigneur declared: "We alone can act as umpire, and, aided by all Frenchmen, can remake France. If France rejects monarchy she must choose between decay and party dictatorship." In two hours the Comte de Paris was safely back in Belgium...