Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 25? an hour. The statutory work week became 44 hours. It was not illegal to work a longer week; it-was simply more expensive for employers, who thereafter would have to pay 1½ the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount...
...hated to see a man stand in open court and get the sudden shock of a sentence without advance preparation...
...been spent, for Heaven knows what, and in its place is only an I.O.U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the Treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country to get the money. . . . Instead of weakening Social Security, Republicans will strengthen it . . . put a firm foundation under that column of the temple of social justice, now falling down...
...urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain-an increasing probability-and thus enable Generalissimo Francisco Franco legally to blockade Leftist ports, little food from the outside could get to Leftist Spain...
...Kennedy began by relating that when Mrs. Kennedy first heard what was in his mind as he prepared his Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...