Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walsh-Healy Act, which requires all manufacturers who contract to supply the Federal Government with $10,000 or more of goods to certify that such goods are produced under a 40-hour week...
...unpleasant choice between stopping construction of six destroyers and three submarines in Government Navy yards, or of having Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (charged with enforcement of the Walsh-Healy Act) declare an emergency and permit the steel companies to supply steel manufactured by 44-hour-a-week workers-thus offending Organized Labor...
First official act of big, bronze-skinned Mr. McNutt will be to sit in on discussions of U. S.-Philippine trade relations with President Roosevelt and little, brown-skinned Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, who last week sped across the land from Los Angeles to keep his White House engagement. Informed of Mr. McNutt's appointment in Chicago, President Quezon tactfully observed that if President Roosevelt had chosen him he must be the best man for the job. But in Manila, the U. S.-owned-&-edited Bulletin declared: "If politics had not been considered, if special fitness had been...
...come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage Law case, and declined to go so far as the majority in throwing out the Guffey Coal Act lock, stock & barrel. Yet he is definitely in liberal disfavor, not so much because of his anti-New Deal votes in other cases, as for something they sense in his attitude...
...American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...