Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...
Though copper men volunteered no explanation for their apathy, the obvious answer was the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, passed at the last session of Congress and applicable to all Government orders of $10,000 or more, exclusive of transportation, communication or construction contracts. The law requires the bidder to 1) pay prevailing wages, 2) adhere to an eight-hour day, a five-day week, 3) employ no child or convict labor, 4) maintain safe and sanitary working conditions. Most reputable corporations can qualify on all points except hours...
More than 600 contracts for some $35,000,000 have been awarded with Walsh-Healey Act stipulations in the last three months, successful bidders ranging from U. S. Steel Corp. to New York Knee Pants...
...sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these possibilities, A & P's President Hartford disowned the cat that had popped out of his bag. From Manhattan he ordered all A & P district managers not to duplicate the New Orleans' district manager...
Harley Lyman Clarke continued to sputter on the sidelines last week after the 77B petition was accepted. Meanwhile Mr. Odium, holding 40% of the company's debt, prepared to take an active hand in remodeling the power pyramid into what the Public Utility Act of 1935 calls a "demonstrably useful" holding company...