Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most crying governmental need today.) New Jersey's bill created the job of State Fiscal Commissioner, to be appointed by the Governor and solely responsible to him. The Commissioner was authorized to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel, save much money. The Legislature was still to fix the maximum appropriation but the Governor was to control its minimum spending. Senator Dryden Kuser, the measure's sponsor, hurried across to the Assembly chamber to speed it through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water in his chair, tossed an exploding firecracker at his feet. As he backed...
...ranking officer on the job, Messrs. Baruch & Johnson had plenty of company in Washington last week. There was scarcely a private dining or meeting room in town which was not packed with the members of this or that trade group haggling over a code regulating minimum wages, maximum hours of work, prices and output which would make them eligible to do business under the Industrial Recovery Act. General Johnson flew to Manhattan during the week to advise other trade associations on their codes. In Washington he and his staff were in consultation with code-making industrialists from...
...From Jan. 1, 1934 (unless earlier decreed by Presidential proclamation) all deposits will be guaranteed to a maximum...
President George Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute walked into the White House last week a proud and happy man. His trade association was well aware that the National Recovery Act-by which Government and business were to enter a "partnership" in fixing minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, volume of output and prices-had passed the House, headed for the Senate. Forehanded, Mr. Sloan slapped down on the President's desk a cotton textile code. President Roosevelt's criticism of the cotton business, which he singled out in his radio address last month as an industry...
Questioned yesterday as to the cost of expanding the parking field behind the Business School to accommodate 700 cars, a reliable firm of landscape contractors in Boston said that the maximum price would be $400. The present space which accommodates about 300 cars measures roughly 150 by 100 feet so that an addition to accommodate cars of College students as well would mean grading 20,000 square feet. Since the University maintain a large maintenance staff the work could probably be done for a good deal less...