Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the prayer offered by the Rev. James Boyd when the Southern Pine Association met recently in New Orleans to consider the effects of the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
...sloppy a statute as ever was slapped together by a closing Congress. Since the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect on October 24, its botched provisions had turned out to be among those with the widest effects. U. S. business still gets along as well as it does principally because the law does not apply to some 33,000,000 of 44,000,000 gainfully employed people in the U. S., and because it alters the wages or hours of no more than 3,000,000 of those to whom it does apply...
...quotable fellow," he tells interviewers, "just a quiet guy." The quiet guy's big job is to get Fair Standards safely started through the courts by selecting a series of sound, definitive cases for immediate test. His chief source of worry on this score is the possibility of ill-chosen cases filed by employes...
Taking their cue from the Premier's plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
...York World's Fair grounds at Flushing Meadow Park, L. I., Dr. Wralter O. Robinson of Brooklyn's St. John's University held the first of a series of classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...