Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courts of inquiry, which the Minister of Labor may appoint if a major public interest is at stake...
Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews of the Wage-Hour law last week announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden...
...Major Fletcher's duties will scarcely begin before the Wage-Hour law has been court-tested. Test No. 1 is to be in textiles, a big North Carolina industry. Said Administrator Andrews last week: the first test will be on "where interstate commerce begins...
Thus closed the first of Franklin Roosevelt's major "Purge" primaries, on a note seemingly far removed from national issues. But by his "white supremacy" speeches Senator Smith reminded Southern Democrats of Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for Northern Negroes, his tacit approval of the Anti-Lynching bill. And the red shirts worn that night were in celebration of another repulse of the carpetbaggers. Instead of being purged...
...come from Manhattan that Marie Antoinette, which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...