Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted to send the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill back to the Labor Committee for further study and revision, in effect killing it (see below...
...evening last week, as the clerk of the House of Representatives thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt...
Back of last week's dramatic finale lay an extraordinary seven-month struggle. Introduced in the Senate by Alabama's Hugo LaFayette Black and in the House by Massachusetts' late William P. Connery Jr., the Wages & Hours Bill had the major aim of setting up an authority to impose on U. S. industry minimum wages & maximum hours of labor. The Senate passed it last July, but in the House it was held up by a hostile Rules Committee until a majority petition to discharge it was completed three weeks ago. Last week, by the time that...
...neat goatee and puffing on a long cheroot, he declared "We are all old men, without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility of seeing that China is restored to normalcy, after which we will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking Government...
Boris Petrovick Sheboldaev, former secretary of the Azov-Black Sea region Communist Party...