Word: houre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House order, Wage-Hour's new administrator and trouble-shooter-tough, able Lieut.-Colonel Philip Fleming of the Army Engineers, whom Franklin Roosevelt selected for the job weeks ago (TIME. Oct. 16)-was under her orders...
Dear Elmer had had a hard row to hoe. When he took the job he was told to wait & see how far industry would voluntarily comply with Wage-Hour regulations. That method worked astoundingly well...
Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
...coffee pot had boiled over on the new stove, extinguished the flame. Little Bruno lay on the floor, Amelia on the bed. The emergency crew worked on the two for a fruitless hour before they finally gave up. Angelo's three years had become a life sentence...