Word: employables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became his consuming passion. Uncle Joe, in spite of my efforts to persuade him, steadfastly refused to name Norris, [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, disappointed at not being made chairman of the Committee on Immigration, Mr. Norris led a group of about twenty-five insurgent Republicans...
...word "assimilation" as an insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe...
This week Dean Lane & friends were to go before the Arizona Legislature to demand that Arizona, only State without a full-time health commissioner, employ one at once. Prompted by Critic Buck, Dean Lane was to urge further that each of Arizona's 14 counties and all its big cities hire full-time health officers, and that those authorities be empowered to deal peremptorily with water supply, sewage disposal and all other environmental health factors...
...Contracts Act, passed at the last session of Congress and applicable to all Government orders of $10,000 or more, exclusive of transportation, communication or construction contracts. The law requires the bidder to 1) pay prevailing wages, 2) adhere to an eight-hour day, a five-day week, 3) employ no child or convict labor, 4) maintain safe and sanitary working conditions. Most reputable corporations can qualify on all points except hours...
Last month Publisher Hearst addressed to his striking Seattle employes a post-election endorsement of popular, victorious Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, with a double master stroke, he capitulated to the demands of Newspaper Guildsmen, who had kept his Seattle Post-Intelligencer closed since last August (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball...