Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Schneider, 44, had taught manual training in Chicago's Washburne School since 1919. Like Chicago's other 14,000 teachers he had long been unpaid. He had borrowed to the limit on his life insurance, then let the policy lapse. Teacher
...over the banking room when the bank closed at 5:08 p. m. Meantime in Washington Secretary Woodin and officials of the Federal Reserve and R. F. C. had been in earnest conference. They let it be known that the Government would back the reopened Cleveland banks "to the limit." This was no great news to most of Cleveland's businessmen. They had taken it for granted. The run had been staged chiefly by small depositors, among whom alleged malicious reports had been spread. Detectives scoured the city hoping to catch and pillory the gossipers...
...Swope in a blue serge suit shining with wear, sat down with the members of the House Labor Committee, told them he thought the 30-hour week bill was too inflexible but proposed: 1) To limit all employes (except farmers and domestics) receiving less than $1,800 a year to 832 hours work in every period of six months (about 32 hours a week), not more than 48 hours in any week, nor more than eight hours in any day. 2) By declaring a national emergency to make the rule apply not only to factories shipping in interstate commerce...
...orderly program of ship building which would ultimately bring the United States up to the full allowance, according to the treaty limit, is my preference in regard to all naval programs," stated C. F. Adams '88, former Secretary of the Navy and Overseer of the University, yesterday...
...Wesley Ramey obscure Grand Rapids lightweight: a fight with Champion Tony Canzoneri, who lost eight of the ten rounds, ended with a bruised face and bad cuts over both eyes, kept his title only because he had insisted that Ramey enter the ring weighing more than the light-weight limit of 135 lb.; in Grand Rapids...