Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. Navy last week performed at sea an act designed to impress a world audience (see col. 1), at home, in Iowa, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins took the spotlight in the Administration's biggest act for domestic consumption since the 1938 elections...
...name of the Hopkins act was Restoring Business Confidence. Nothing quite like it had ever been staged under New Deal management. Heretofore Franklin Roosevelt's morsels of encouragement to Private Profit had been tossed out as asides in speeches which concentrated on the New Deal's grander social objectives. Even the famed "breathing spell" of 1935 came only in answer to a letter from a publisher.* Now, Depression and an election having intervened, the fairest-haired lieutenant of the whole New Deal was being sent out to effect Recovery through the strange and unfamiliar medium of Business itself...
...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...
...prosecution. Defendants: Brown's Contract Stitching, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass. Charge: that Brown paid less than 25? an hour, falsified records. Maximum penalties: $10,000 fine for a first offense; $10,000 and six months in prison for a second. Said Elmer Andrews, apprised of the indictment: "The act has teeth in it and the Administration proposes to enforce...
Elmer Andrews' lawyers have also filed six civil suits, obtained four settlements in workers' favor by consent decrees. At the maximum, defendants in civil actions may be compelled to pay their employes twice the difference between substandard wages and the wages due under the act. In practice, when an employer consents to settle without trial, he may get off by paying the actual difference (plus court costs...