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...Arizona minimum wage law for women was tested in the case of an owner of two stores in Nogales who employed four women clerks at less than the $16 a week minimum wage established by law. The Arizona law was declared invalid, the decision being based on the Supreme Court's previous decision that the Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia was unconstitutional. Justice Brandeis dissented, and Justice Holmes gave his consent only on the grounds of the previous decision...
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...invalid, rich provender...
...Edmund was being congratulated and interviewed upon his golden wedding anniversary. An Oxonian newspaper reporter had shown ignorance of those same Pre-Raphaelites and of how he, Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous...
...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...