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Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
...home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi...
...Connell's bill would amend the present Neutrality Act, wihch applies an embargo on war materials to both sides in the present Spanish and Chinese wars, so as to limit the embargo to the aggressor nation and allow suppies to be sent to the victims of aggression...
...auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill, it appeared that the battle over Federal aid had merely been shifted to Washington...
...Washington a committee of the National Education Association, after seeing President Roosevelt, indicated that the President would support his Committee's recommendations. And in Congress, Senator Harrison prepared to amend his Federal aid bill to conform to the Reeves proposals...