Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 by the boards, employes could sue their employers in the Federal Courts. Liability: double the wages due, plus legal costs. Penalties upon employers who break...
Taxation, The Court made three significant loopholes in its ancient doctrine that the Government cannot tax the '"instrumentalities" of a sovereign State. The Justices ruled that the Federal Government could collect taxes on: 1) the profits of operators leasing oil lands from the State of California, 2) the salaries of employes of the Port of New York Authority, 3) Football-receipts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology...
This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano...
...they have collected their money. Let them send their ambulance overseas. We will collect money; we will send an ambulance to the other side. It will be marked in the Spanish language so that the recipients of our charity may know their benefactors...
Eleven years ago Emil Marek lost a leg. This was not the hard luck it might have seemed, for it enabled him to collect $42,875 in insurance to finance an invention. The invention failed and not long afterward he fell ill and died. In fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood...