Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk, giving advice and taking orders. Representative Connery of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Labor Committee, House Leader Sam Rayburn, Senator Black of Alabama, Chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee, Senate Leader Robinson, buzzed in & out. The Black-Connery Bill was whipped into shape-40 hours a week maximum, 40? an hour minimum were its terms as given to the press. Previews and consultations were provided, one day for A. F. of L.'s William Green, who would not firmly commit himself; another day for C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman, who gave generalized approval...
...nourished, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity has returned. . . . All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower. Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor...
...Allowing for a few exceptional trades and permitting longer hours on the payment of time and a half for overtime, it should not be difficult to define a general maximum working week. Allowing for appropriate qualifications and general classifications by administrative action, it should also be possible to put some floor below which the wage ought not to fall. There should be no difficulty in ruling out the products of the labor of children from any fair market. And there should also be little dispute when it comes to ruling out of the interstate markets products of employers who deny...
...bill which obedient Messrs. Black & Connery popped into the hoppers provided for a five-man board to regulate maximum hours and minimum pay on a flexible basis, allowing for seasonal and industrial conditions. At the last minute the 40-hour and 40? ($16 a week) limits were taken out, leaving blanks for Congress to fill in. This was regarded as better political strategy. Franklin Roosevelt for once had enough specific personal proposals before the Congress...
...money now available, it is planned to award at least two of these fellowships a year. The method basing its remunerations on ability, character, and record without regard to financial need, carries the "sliding scale" feature and will take a man through the four year course on a maximum yearly award...