Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of other industries. Mr. Lewis has now turned toward the 1,250,000 workers involved in the manufacture of woolen, cotton, rayon, jute, and other clothing goods. Eighting northern as well as southern manufacturers, John demands a minimum wage of eighteen dollars, four dollars higher than N.R.A., a maximum hour week of thirty-five hours, and recognition of the C.I.O...
Representing the Council will be Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and William W. Hancock '38 who are to uphold the negative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress should be empowered to regulate minimum wages and maximum hours for industry...
...will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have a "right" in varying degrees to be in the Abbey, but its maximum capacity is about 7,700. The choir screen cuts off all but about 2,000 persons in the Abbey from seeing what takes place. It is therefore in a fine medieval and traditional sense a Mystery...
...decision Debating Council meet with Purdue in the Lowell House Common Room at 8:30 o'clock tonight, the Crimson orators will argue on the negative side of the subject, "Resolved, That Congress should be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry...
...Homer Cummings and James Farley. Taking a pious and sanctimonious attitude, these gentlemen contend that there is such a crying need for social legislation of the NRA and AAA type, that delay is impossible. We are told that a constitutional amendment to legalize minimum wage laws and maximum hours of work regulations would take too long to put through, and that no time must be wasted in achieving this desired goal...