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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he was trying hard to persuade Administrator Elmer F. Andrews to find that newspaper employes do not come under the rules of the Wages-&-Hours Act. Mr. Hanson based his arguments on 1) Section 13 (a) (2) of the Act, which exempts employes of any "retail or service establishment the greater part of whose selling or servicing is in intrastate commerce"; 2) Section 13 (a) (1) which exempts "professional" employes; 3) Section 2 (a) which would exempt industries not engaged in "commerce or in the production of goods for commerce...
...Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds he was astonished to find the patient's abdomen open. Most surgeons at the General took ten minutes for this procedure...
...mission was to find a market abroad for excess citrus fruits and other crops, particularly wheat (of which the Government announced it would sell 100,000,000 bushels abroad by July, has thus far succeeded in selling only 39,000,000). Few people either here or in Europe would thank him for his trouble, because sales at whatever price he could get might depress both domestic and international farm prices...
Last weelt the Department of Agriculture set out to find answers for these questions. Picking cotton mattresses as a medium for experiment, Assistant Secretary Harry Brown invited cotton producers, manufacturers, distributors to discuss the possibility of applying the two-price plan at home...
Wave-Lengths. Buck Weaver likes to remark. "For years businessmen have used the expression 'The customer is always right,' but it never occurred to any one to try to find out what it was that the customer was right about...