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...went to work in a machine shop after graduating from high school. He moved from shop to shop because he liked to tackle new problems. At the N. A. Woodworth Co. he so simplified his piecework job that in four hours he turned out double the work of the eight-hour men and earned $600 a month. With too much time on his hands, he quit to start his own tool shop in a building he constructed. In the first several months, he did exactly $18 worth of business. He was forced to move his bride out of their comfortable...
After routine apprenticeship as prose cuting attorney and judge, he got to Congress in 1913. There he worked hard to pass the railroad eight-hour law (Adamson Act), which endeared him to labor. A personal and political dry, he was a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, once traveled all the way to Stockholm for an international prohibition conference. All during Prohibition, he stuck to ice-cream sodas. But he stumped for Al Smith, backed the Democrats' repeal plank in 1932, now takes an occasional drink...
...Philadelphia, schools developed plans to fill retail-sales jobs on a basis of afternoon work on school days, an eight-hour Saturday stint. Returns to school were up over...
...week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
...Photographs and electric devices to record movements show that the average sleeper, who changes position at least 40 times during an eight-hour stretch, is quietest in the first two hours, then grows progressively more restless...