Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum wages, maximum hours bill...
...week that the place to go for hearty food and sound wines was the Brasserie des Metiers. Also crowded were the Midway joints for Alsatian sauerkraut. Even so the majority of Europeans were bringing their own lunches and dinners to the Exposition last week, staying all day to get maximum money's worth for the admission charge of six francs (25?). Smart U. S. citizens just landed from the French Line's Normandie, jampacked last week the Exposition's small, select Restaurant La Normandie. whose manager is the ship's Associate Purser John Henry. Smartest large...
Next to the politicians, the silk stocking group which usually supports Fusion candidates liked him least, for Mayor La-Guardia has not good manners. Short, swart and tousled, with a minimum of neck and a maximum of torso, he takes off his rumpled coat and leans back in his big office chair with his feet dangling a foot from the floor, no picture of municipal dignity. When he flies off the handle, as he frequently does, his voice grows shrill, he is likely to call almost anybody names, and whatever he doesn't like is "lousy...
...Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed accompaniments is one portion of High, Wide and Handsome, written and scored by the reliable partnership of Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein...
Bedseat Driving. Seated in his bed at Tokyo last week, the Premier of Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...