Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is a healthful thing not to have the country represented too predominately by either party, for it puts both on their mettle. On the whole, I think it is as easy to put through a well-thought-out program when the two major parties are more nearly equally represented in Congress...
...Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to 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...
...Mississippi folks are going to apply this law in Mississippi, New York folks in New York," he says. Eventually every factory and business house subject to the law will be inspected once a year, either by Major Fletcher's staff or by cooperative State Labor Departments...
...Just now Major Fletcher's "staff" consists chiefly of the workers who come under the Act. A. F. of L. and C. I. O. have set up offices in Washington to clear complaints, take utmost advantage of the fact that organized employes are in a better position than unorganized workers to make their employers toe the line...
...University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis on The Emotional Responses of Children to Radio Drama. Last week the university revealed some of his findings: 1) Children often do have violent physiological reactions to radio programs. 2) Violent action is not the only cause of excitement-small children got a major thrill out of hearing a dog bark in his bath. 3) Biggest thrill of all in one program was the offer of a premium...