Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black-Connery Bill, giving the Federal Government power to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages throughout U. S. industry, was passed by the Senate just before it adjourned last August. In the House, the bill hit a snag in the potent Rules Committee, which can at least temporarily prevent passage of any bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach...
...editorial goes on to condemn the closed shop as "incompatible with a liberal university tradition of the maximum of freedom for all its members, students, and employees." Although objections to the closed shop are frequently made, it is important that something be said in its favor before a decision is made that this demand "must be firmly repulsed...
...demand for a closed shop, however, is an entirely different matter. Implying as it does a complete monopoly for one union, the closed shop is incompatible with a liberal university tradition of the maximum of freedom for all its members, students, and employees, alike in educational and other fields. Unless Harvard has decided to abandon this policy of a maximum of freedom, the closed shop demand must be firmly repulsed...
...Dana N. Bible is twice that of the university's president. While this was true at the time Coach Bible's contract was signed last winter, the Texas Legislature shortly authorized the Board of Regents for the University to increase the President's salary to a maximum...
...same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately 25% of the State total...