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...speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity. Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain...
...Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 set up a federal minimum wage, there have been few public issues in the U.S. on which there was so much agreement on the rightness of the goals and so much disagreement on how to get there. Last week the debate was fueled anew. In his economic message, President Kennedy urged Congress "to raise the minimum wage immediately to $1.15 an hour and to $1.25 within two years.'' The President also recommended that the Fair Labor act be broadened to include "several million" workers not now covered, basically those in retail trade...
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but, a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed...
...Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, and by next year will have a $6,000,000 mill operating. Growing sugar, at yields of $200 an acre, is more profitable than riding the ups and downs of raising vegetables. Refugee sugarmen from Cuba are jumping into the Florida mucklands to start anew after Castro grabbed their Cuban holdings. The Florida Sugar Corp. is setting up two mills and planting 2,000 acres, with $6,000,000 from the Bacardi rum interests. Osceola Farms, backed by three Cuban families, owns 4,400 acres and is negotiating for much more. The Cubans...
...were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...