Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to take action before the District of Columbia Commissioners appointed a Minimum Wage Board. Promptly Ruth Carnett, waitress, claiming she has been paid $10.40 a week instead of $16.50 as required by law sued her employer for the difference since the date of her employment, Jan. 13, 1936. ¶ To questioners at press conference the President reiterated that he knew nothing about plans to cut the price of gold as a check on inflation. ¶ President Roosevelt, with Harry Hopkins at his side, gave audience to Governors Lehman of New York, Benson of Minnesota, La Follette of Wisconsin, Quinn...
...John Russell Pope of Manhattan and Newport. From the drawing boards of conservative Architect Pope have already come the Scottish Rite Temple on 16th Street and the new Archives Building. Easily he persuaded elderly Mr. Mellon that he would be the ideal architect for the proposed Mellon Gallery (TIME, Jan...
...Commissars, for example, told the average Soviet freight train at what average speed it is going to run this year, decreed such things as how many gallons of milk per week the Cabinet plans that the average Russian cow shall give. On Jan. 1, 1937 there was nationwide Communist celebration of the State's announcements that every producing commissariat except that for Timber had "overfulfilled its production quota for 1936"-this quota having been set under the Second Five-Year Plan, which now has only eight more months to run. Statistics released last week with the Cabinet...
...countries over who owns the 15% of the stock in Ethiopia's only railway which Haile Selassie claims is owned by his "Ethiopian Government." Il Duce claims this stock for Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this 494 miles of rail, linking Addis Ababa with the French port of Djibouti. Last week, according to the French, Il Duce had forced...
...them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which it inaugurated two months ago on the Skylounge DC-3, which has 14 swivel chairs instead of the usual 21 fixed seats (TIME, Jan. 25). Meanwhile TWA got along with the three-year-old model, 14-passenger DC-2's, gradually found that its fare cuts had been too drastic...