Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically exempt from the provisions of the Act are those engaged in such occupations as agriculture, fishing, local service and retail trades. The law applies to most others if they are engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce. Of 11,000,000 workers and 250,000 employers so engaged, the majority are in manufacturing and mining industries. But no occupational rule-of-thumb can settle...
...last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial welfare code, Major Fletcher believes in local enforcement by local...
...local subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp...
Rockland's superintendent. Dr. Russell Enoch Blaisdell, suspended Mrs. Irvine and dismissed Chemist Henry Alvers, prepared himself for six Federal, State and local investigations...
...curiosity test, in which a record of someone reading "Moby Dick" is played very softly over a loudspeaker, was unsuccessfully tried with some local talent the other day. "Children are so used to radios now that they didn't pay any attention," Dr. Dyk explained yesterday. "I think I'll try putting it in the closet...