Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many Now Exempt...
...command of good written English in the student's whole training," Dean Leighton continued, "and its desire to strengthen the position of English A, which seeks to aid students at the outset in gaining such a command, the Faculty Council has decided to reduce the number of students exempted from this course. In the future the Committee for Elementary Modern language Instruction will be given authority to determine what students shall be exempt from English...
...this wage-hour problem. Off-hand in press conference he indicated that he would accept an amendment to the law, perhaps a plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal division would prepare such an amendment, or whether he would leave businessmen to sponsor the change, Elmer Andrews...
...office with a desk on which there is a buzzer, and if he can press that buzzer and have somebody come dashing in response-then he's an executive," i.e., exempt from the law's overtime regulations...
Specifically exempt from the provisions of the Act are those engaged in such occupations as agriculture, fishing, local service and retail trades. The law applies to most others if they are engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce. Of 11,000,000 workers and 250,000 employers so engaged, the majority are in manufacturing and mining industries. But no occupational rule-of-thumb can settle...