Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within two years to 40 hours...
...Knabb was in the hottest water ever, but still fighting happily. Indictments brought by Prosecutor Purves 1) charged him with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers...
Representatives in Jamaica's Colonial Legislature empowered Captain-General* & Governor Sir Edward Brandis Denham to declare a state of emergency if necessary. Eighty British soldiers and 400 native policemen were mobilized; 100 local militiamen, 250 special constables were called out. The British cruiser Ajax, with 550 well-armed bluejackets, rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike...
...many years the question of whether traffic court proceedings should be broadcast has been hotly debated. Last week, speaking against the practice before the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Municipal Judge Edward B. Casey presented some pertinent figures: In one court, of those tried when proceedings were not broadcast, 31.6% were convicted. Of those tried during broadcasts, 87.5% were convicted. Average fine when there was no broadcast was $10.63, but when the judge had the world listening in, average fines were...
John F. Kennedy '40 will skipper one with Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '40 and James A. Rousmautere '40 on the ropes, while Philip L. Reed, Jr. '40 sails the other aided by Richard W. Burnett '40 and Edward B. Hutton...