Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norton, who at one & the same time is Labor's champion as co-author of the new Wages-&-Hours bill and grateful to Boss Hague for her seat in the House of Representatives. They waved flags while 150,000 cheered...
Plenty of howling against purchases abroad is expected from both British labor and aircraft manufacturers, and only the fact that Parliament was not in session last week saved the Air Secretary from cries of ''Buy British" from the Opposition. Anti-Chamberlain Conservative M. P.s are expected to add their complaints that foreign purchases indicate the continued failure of the Air Ministry to solve the problem by home production, as they believe possible...
...rith, the Jewish Labor Committee of David Dubinsky, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations repudiated the referendum. Rabbi Wise hoped to get 1,000,000 Jews to the polls. Last week the American Hebrew, pro-Adler journal, listing the organizations which have declared themselves on the question, found their membership totaled more than 1,000,000, about 9-to-1 against Rabbi Wise and his conception of "Jews in America...
Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...
...life has been that he has not received the Nobel Prize. His colleagues say that this is because Wood's mind, brilliantly productive in the early stages of an experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received the Nobel Prize...