Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last Mr. Dake got up to attend to Revelations himself. Whipping through its 22 chapters in 55 min. he read, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, and flipped the Bible closed. The reading of 773,746 words had been done in 69 hr. 17 min., which Preacher Dake declared a record. (In Cincinnati the Old & New Testament were read synchronously in 16 hr. 40 min. -TIME, March 27.) Challenging any church to put up a team he said: "I'll even lay a side bet on our readers...
Bushy-maned President John Llewellyn Lewis made a graceful bow to the "partnership" between Labor, Capital and Government. He told his men that, although he would ask for a 30-hour week (coal code maximum: 40 hr.) and higher pay when new labor contracts are discussed with bituminous operators in Washington Feb. 12, the miners would be "in a mood of cooperation, conciliation and constructive contribution...
This the union denied. A.F.W. said it was striking for a 40-hr. week, $20 a week pay (NRA minimum: $7.50), free food, uniforms, laundry, recognition of the union. The offender, declared the union, was one of its organizers who had been discriminated against. While Mr. Boomer bought more newspaper space to invite his old employes back at the Waldorf's terms, 2,000 marchers had a field day in front of the hotel and Park Avenue rang with the "Internationale" and "Solidarity Forever...
...over to the Chemical Warfare division in which he became a major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded by barbed wire and mystery, he worked 18 hr. a day, slept in his laboratory, managed his jittery subordinates with tact and understanding. Too late for use in the War he perfected a laboratory process for manufacturing sinister, superdeadly Lewisite gas. His two sons, aged 10 and 7, have never seen their father's uniform, never heard from...
More haggling occurred over the matter of whether reporters were ''professional persons" and therefore exempt from the 40-hr, a week clause. The American Newspaper Guild, formed last autumn, helped evolve a satisfactory compromise by requiring the code to make a survey of editorial hours and wages...