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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing...
Harry Bennett: "The 32-hour week would be fine if employers did not try to get 48 hours out of a working man for 32 hours' pay....It wouldn't work...
...about wages, workingmen and working conditions in any plants connected with or supplying the Ford Motor Company. At no time did Martin and I discuss unions. However, I told newspapermen in Martin's presence that if we need a union-U.A.W. or any other-we'll get one. Right now we don't need one. If our men want to organize in any union they'll do it and that's all right with...
...last week the commission had decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
...Deal. Every unemployed Czechoslovak male aged over 18 was last week ordered to register for Labor Service, a program created by the Syrovy Cabinet to conscript in effect every jobless Czechoslovak to build new railways, highways and other projects necessary to get the dismembered Czechoslovak Republic reorganized and on its feet. As fast as they are mustered out of the Czechoslovak army, great numbers of recruits will be mustered into the Labor Service, and stern punishment was decreed for the new Czechoslovak crime of giving a man a "fake job," thus exempting from Labor Service...