Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black Bill. Broadest and most concrete proposal before the country was a bill by Alabama's smart little Senator Hugo Black to establish throughout the U. S. a 30-hour work week. The Black bill would penalize those manufacturers doing an interstate business who worked their employes longer than six hours per day, five days per week. Its sponsors declared it represented the crystallization of the best economic thought of the times to limit the hours of labor to spread unemployment. Its genesis was blamed on the conservative backwardness of U. S. industry to revamp itself to meet...
William Paterson returned to England, tried in vain to interest the merchants of James II's reign in a company to establish a colony on Darien. Hamburg, Amsterdam and Berlin also rejected him. While trying to find backers, he organized the Bank of England (1694), soon fought with fellow directors, resigned, went to Scotland...
...Assuming that some are not benefited, do you think that it would be wise to recognize this condition and establish two degrees an Honors Degree, with tutorial instruction and general examinations are optional...
This drew cheers and a burst of hand-claps-ordinarily banned in the Assembly. Even louder applause rang out when Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, said. "Is the League aware that this is a great test case which will establish precedents for future disputes? . . . Any policy of compromise as regards principles will lead to failure and ultimate death for the League...
This address announced under the title of "Technological Unemployment," will actually cover a much wider field. Coyle has suggested in his book, "The Irrepressible Conflict," the modification of the capitalist system which seems to him necessary to establish our economic system, and to prevent the recurrence of depressions such as we are now experiencing. His ideas have commended themselves to many thoughtful men, and indicate a possible means for maintaining the capitalist system in a modified form against the threat of communism or a controlled economy. This modification has as one of its chief elements, a method of eliminating technical...