Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed by the Senate, what the Wages & Hours Bill proposed was a five-man Labor Standards Board, named by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to set nationwide pay & working standards in all U. S. industries affecting interstate commerce, except farming and industries already under Government regulation. The LSB was to set minimum wages up to 40? an hour, maximum hours down to 40 hours a week. Also included were strict child-labor limits. Infringement of the LSB rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over...
...Except attendance in the Unitarian, Universalist and Christian Science churches, which had a high positive correlation with...
...wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except the toilet and seats either hangs on, or disappears into the walls, most of the 5 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 7 in. floor area is left clear by day. At night, sitting on the bed the occupant has11 in. in which to swing his feet, but a roomette...
...important vessels "cruising for the winter"-a branch of shipping that many ocean lines now consider an integral part of their business, for it keeps their ships occupied during the slack transatlantic season. The cruising business has not yet been materially affected by the present depression except for the abandonment of the sold-out Round-the-World cruise of the Bremen scheduled for February 1938-due partly to cancelations by passengers after the early autumn recessions of the U. S. stockmarket, partly to cancelations because of the alteration of the cruise route from the Orient to the Antipodes...
...many generations of Harvard students, Copey and Christmas have become almost synonymous. Shortly before the vacation recess each December, except last year when he was ill, Copey has given his Yuletide readings to Freshmen at the Union. This has been going on for twenty-six years now, and Copey's drawing power is growing greater with each year. It is not because he is the former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory that Copey's annual rendition regularly attracts crowds of Yardlings; they can and do hear accomplished speakers almost daily! It is not because the selections he reads...