Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buzzing around to boost the Federal Wages & Hours Law, Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews last week buzzed off the following opinions for Denver and Chicago businessmen...
...office with a desk on which there is a buzzer, and if he can press that buzzer and have somebody come dashing in response-then he's an executive," i.e., exempt from the law's overtime regulations...
...ceased to be a patriot because I defended peace?'' he asked, and his supporters shot back a vociferous "No!" Denying the Leftist accusation that he had dictatorial ambitions, the Premier again rhetorically shouted: "Am I no longer a Republican because I insist upon respect for republican law and order...
Lieutenant Midtlyng had known little about whaling when he boarded the Frango, but reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead...
...hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean...