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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
...wasn't. Everybody knew about "the Veep and the Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality, I will be chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
This week the State Department abruptly sharpened its tone, told the Czech government to call home two of its own diplomats, the consul general in New York and a strangely authoritative embassy housekeeper in Washington...
There was little doubt as to the man the Administration wanted as Denfeld's successor. He was Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman who, as Deputy Vice Chief of Naval Operations, had committed the Navy sin of joining with the Air Force's Lieut. General Larry Norstad as one of the original authors of unification. When integration came, Forrest Sherman was bundled out of Washington to become commander of the Sixth Task Fleet in the Mediterranean. This week Secretary Matthews smuggled him home on a civilian airline to offer him Denfeld...