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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest and he makes it pay). He worked hard but in vain to collect a claim for $1,600,000 when he thought he had a case against the Government for some marble-bearing lands flooded by TVA. He also worked hard but also in vain to get nominated last summer to the Senate seat which he got in 1937 by appointment from Governor Gordon Browning...
...Hopkins has had an unusual administrative experience in the Government. . . . Everybody hereabouts recognizes that the biggest job of the next 18 months is to get the economic recovery machine going. This means a meshing of business and Government action. If Harry Hopkins makes a success of it, and the business men feel he has accomplished something affirmative in the oft-talked-about but little-realized Government-&-business cooperation policy, it will be because the man now being suggested for the Department of Commerce portfolio will have brought left and right wings together in a practical...
...Back in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews gave employers hope that they may soon be relieved of 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...
...impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes the amount of its deficit out of the $100,000 nut, gives back the rest to the workers. If the deficit is $100,000 or more the workers of course get nothing; if there is a profit, they get...
...Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales, in return for being given 4,000,000 of the 7,000,000 bales the Government now holds for cotton loans. This maneuver, according to Senator Bankhead. would leave only 18,000,000 bales...