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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have worn my finger down to a nub about this goddam Fair ? ? ? wages bill. I want to know ? Does it apply to my business. After reading volumes and listening to hundreds of opinions, I am still definitely confused. I manufacture upholstered chairs. I have ceased shipping interState. I get most of my raw materials from out of State, such as lumber, fabrics, springs, tacks, etc. Does the fact that getting my materials through interState Commerce make me subject to this act even if I don't ship interState...
...pass a law and worry the hell out of a small businessman like myself because you don't know what to do and can't find out. If I am subject to this law, when are they going to have some local offices so a person can get some additional information...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Minn., one-time Interim Senator Guy Victor Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
...gunners and pursuit pilots. First developed in California as a Denny hobby, the miniature (8 ft. by 12 ft.), gasoline-driven robots need no pilots, can fly at 7,000 to 8,000 feet for 30 minutes. Until the planes are delivered next summer, practicing gunners must continue to get along with colored streamers towed behind full-sized craft...
Though the Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were...