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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note Mr. Andrews is scratching behind his ear. I have worn my finger down to a nub about this goddam Fair ? ? ? wages bill. I want to know ? Does it apply to my business. After reading volumes and listening to hundreds of opinions, I am still definitely confused. I manufacture upholstered chairs. I have ceased shipping interState. I get most of my raw materials from out of State, such as lumber, fabrics, springs, tacks, etc. Does the fact that getting my materials through interState Commerce make me subject to this act even if I don't ship interState...
...wrote Mr. Andrews several weeks ago, but so far, no answer. This is one of the things that disgusts me with the Administration. They pass a law and worry the hell out of a small businessman like myself because you don't know what to do and can't find out. If I am subject to this law, when are they going to have some local offices so a person can get some additional information...
Representing their electorates last week were three Senators who will never know what it is like to fidget through a filibuster. Reason: they were elected to fill vacancies from November 9 through January 2, and the Senate will not sit until January...
Columnists, correspondents, Congressmen and such military critics as astute Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch) wanted to know whom and where the U. S. expects to fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...
Only when Stillman's promise to make the Harvard Student Union represent the whole campus has been fulfilled will we know that the great majority of Harvard students are interested enough in the preservation and extension of American democracy to take political action to that end. Leo Marx...