Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose rescue he raced on his wheel chair was the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide for minimum wages and maximum hours in U. S. industry, item No. 2 on the President's program for the current extra session...
...Wages & Hours Bill has had hard sledding. Introduced in both Houses in the thick of the Court fight last spring, it got through the Senate in July. In the Senate, the bill found stern opposition from Republicans like Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, who considered it a step on the road to "the centralized, authoritarian State" but in the House it never even had a chance to be denounced. House procedure empowers the Rules Committee to determine the order in which bills shall be considered, apportion time limits for general debate. Thus, by not giving a "rule" to bring...
...passed by the Senate, what the Wages & Hours Bill proposed was a five-man Labor Standards Board, named by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to set nationwide pay & working standards in all U. S. industries affecting interstate commerce, except farming and industries already under Government regulation. The LSB was to set minimum wages up to 40? an hour, maximum hours down to 40 hours a week. Also included were strict child-labor limits. Infringement of the LSB rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over...
...sprints will miss John Calloway, who in his Senior year suddenly forged into a first class sprinter. Bill Schmidt was captain and first-ranking high-hurdler of last year's Varsity, but was incapacitated by a sprained ankle in the latter part of the season. Former Freshman Mason Fernald, in the Oxford-Cambridge meet of July 10, succeeds to the hurdling honors...
Also membered in the Class of 1937 was quarter-miler Bill O'Connor, who jockeyed with his teammates for the lead. But his vacancy lies under the shadow of Sophomore James Lightbody, who also was outstanding on July...