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Flexibility. When, 120 days after enactment, the bill should become effective, the Wage-Hour Administrator, a $10,000 official in the Department of Labor, would begin to examine wages & hours in all industries in interstate commerce to see where and when minimum wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded...
...House library recently. His nose was so close to his pen and book that it would have been impossible to insert a hairpin between them. Suddenly he startled the other crammers by rising and closing his book, then made these same laugh by audibly saying: "Ha! Now to begin my studying...
...vain Senators' attempts to earmark money, for rivers & harbors, flood control, or PWA projects already approved. The President in a letter to Colorado's Adams, used the magic word "Emergency!" The money must be spent quickly, he said, to bridge the summer gap before private industry can begin adding to its payrolls in the winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months. There was no telling what moneys would be most needed for what ends if conditions did not improve by next winter. Let the President, his lieutenants urged...
...Printed proceedings of the House of Lords begin each day with the notation: "The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack." In the time of Edward III, the Lord Chancellor actually sat upon a cushion stuffed with wool, to signify England's dependence upon her wool trade. Now the historic woolsack is a seat upholstered in red cloth. Great was the dismay of the Lords a month ago when the woolsack was found to contain common horsehair. No record of the change had been made. Last weekend, with the peers away for their Whitsuntide recess, the Lord Great...
Last week Lawrence Augustus Wilkins, director of foreign language study in New York City's public high schools, announced that 5,000 New York schoolboys and schoolgirls soon would begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write...