Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industries already under Government regulation. The LSB was to set minimum wages up to 40? an hour, maximum hours down to 40 hours a week. Also included were strict child-labor limits. Infringement of the LSB rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over U. S. industry is naturally least acceptable to the South, whose industrial platform is that its climate and general living conditions diminish living costs and hence make equitable a lower wage rate than the North. Although the provisions of the bill were flexible enough...
...plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement for at least a year. On his own again, younger, fresh-voiced...
When the prophecy first appeared, Columnist Adams (an erstwhile editor of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang and later Shopping. News & Guide gossiper) was promptly questioned by Minneapolis Mayor George E. Leach. He refused to tell the source of his news although Mayor Leach threatened to jail him if his grisly prediction was fulfilled. When it came all too true, Columnist Adams again told police in his scratchy, nasal voice that a reporter cannot break a confidence. Yet this was serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result...
...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
...Committee on Militarism in Education, was brought in as director to restore harmony. He succeeded. By last year he was able to boast that Brookwood had some 30 students, had graduated 420 union executives, of whom, ''as you may well have guessed, three-fourths have been in jail...