Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part of this prediction had now come true. Following the death of his son-in-law, David R. Coker, whose large affairs in South Carolina needed overseeing, kindly, seam-faced Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper's resignation was at last announced. Instantly a Big Business chorus arose led by President George H. Davis of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, seeking to head off the Hopkins appointment. Franklin Roosevelt, like his most trusted friend, laughed away questions about it and Christmas continued to come, with two Cabinet stockings instead of one for the White House Santa Claus...
...expert crook. Among the strangest were old copies of Drug Topics found in the company's files which declared that McKesson & Robbins had "sponsored" a nationwide lecture tour in 1936 and 1937 "to consolidate the sentiment of retailers, manufacturers and businessmen generally behind the Robinson-Patman Law." The lecturer was Congressman Wright Patman of Texarkana...
...Andrews found businessmen worrying most about overtime pay for their higher salaried employes. Back in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews gave employers hope that they may soon be relieved of this wage-hour problem. Off-hand in press conference he indicated that he would accept an amendment to the law, perhaps a plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal division would prepare such an amendment, or whether he would leave businessmen...
When he proudly put his name to the Social Security Act (Aug. 14, 1935), Architect Franklin Roosevelt observed that the law was "the cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some...
...Merritt Parkway, 32 miles (two lanes each way) of satinsmooth express motor roads winding through manicured countryside back of coastal towns from Stratford (near Bridgeport) to the New York line. Another wonder of the East, but for the omission of a compulsory clause in a recent Connecticut law, would have been the water closets in all Connecticut public buildings. That such wonders should have had graft attached to them was last week cause for grief and headlines in the thrifty State of Connecticut...