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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for schools' closing in relatively wealthy Ohio may be obscure to outsiders, but it is no mystery to Ohioans. Four years ago property owners got an amendment to the State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dayton Dilemma | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Western Union Telegraph Co. last week announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Scattered Cats | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

There is comparatively little action for a subject of this kind. The book is principally concerned with the planning of the flight from Africa to South America; and the flight, when it finally takes place, turns out to be an anticlimax. It is, therefore, not from the number of events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

Two months hence the Wages-&-Hours law, to rivet a floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No. I: Textiles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Three industries at one time. Mr. An drews announced, are all he will attempt to tackle at the start. Textiles will be No. 1, cotton garments No. 2, tobacco No. 3. The law requires the Administrator to set up a wage-hour committee for each industry, which will then fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No. I: Textiles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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