Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had marked effect, unless they retarded inevitable progress toward more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo on Loyalist Spain (against lifting...
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins took the stand voluntarily to answer the impeachment charges brought against her by Republican Representative Thomas of New Jersey (TIME, Feb. 6). Failure to deport C. I. O.'s Harry Bridges as an alien Communist was her crime. Dressed in matronly black, with a large white bow across her bosom, Miss Perkins read to the House Judiciary Committee a lawyer-like statement explaining: "I am certainly in favor of the punishment or deportation of any one who engages in [treasonable] conduct. . . . I also wish to emphasize that I am not in accord with...
Among those in opposition to the Federal Child Labor Amendment in hearing at the Masachusetts legislature yesterday was President Lowell...
...weakness of the anti-oath faction which had attempted to push the bill through to a third reading yesterday came as an unexpected blow to labor, church, and educational leaders who have pressed for repeal during the Curley law's four years of existence...
...Youth Movement is going to support candidates for office who will be pledged to refrain from regulating business and industry, but who will also "relieve unemployment and guard the welfare of labor...