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...bill which obedient Messrs. Black & Connery popped into the hoppers provided for a five-man board to regulate maximum hours and minimum pay on a flexible basis, allowing for seasonal and industrial conditions. At the last minute the 40-hour and 40? ($16 a week) limits were taken out, leaving blanks for Congress to fill in. This was regarded as better political strategy. Franklin Roosevelt for once had enough specific personal proposals before the Congress...
...Five-man teams: Krakow Furniture Co. (Detroit...
...Bowling Congress is not only the biggest Congress in the U. S. but also the biggest sport event in the world. In the A. B. C. tournament, 22,000 bowlers, representing the cream of the country's crop of 9,000,000, bowl for eight weeks to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling championships. The Congress costs $100,000. Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from each contestant for each event) of which $145,000 will be distributed as prizes. Last week in the 212th Coast Artillery Armory, equipped with banners, grandstands, 28 brand...
...Wall Street and Broadway. In 1935, when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime Commission to govern U. S. shipping as the Interstate Commerce Commission rules U. S. land transport. Mean time, Joe Kennedy had resigned from SEC because he wanted to see more of his wife and nine children. Last week President Roosevelt again dragged Joe Kennedy out of private life...
...Ecker made it six up for the Crimson early in the second period. Despite the deficit the constantly improving Elis took advantage of many jumps resulting from Harvard five-man rushes, and before the period ended D. Humphrey, Platt, and Andrews beat Kidder, now playing in the Crimson net. Pope scored his second goal of the evening on an unassisted dash...