Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposition in the Pennsylvania debate is: "Resolved, That the federal government should be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages in industry." Harvard has the negative side, and will be represented by Donald McDonald '39, F. Welch Poel, Jr. '39, and Richard W. Sullivan...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Eccles came to the White House on a mysterious mission. Three days later the country was told that the Reserve Board had upped bank reserve requirements one-third more, to the maximum allowed...
These resolutions, selected by the Debating Council for its program, are: 1. "Resolved, That the federal government shall be empowered to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages." 2. "Resolved, That the federal government should own and operate all electrical utilities." 3. "Resolved, That the United States should pursue a policy of economic nationalism...
...retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled retailers for approval...
...education is to "make you a gentleman", his definition of a gentleman being apparently one who pays another to do what he should do himself. This is not such a bad definition. But although the tutor's method of studying for the exam may not have yielded him the maximum intellectual return, it may be doubted that purely social ambitions drove him to seek further learning. If he went to learn, the tutee had better recant, for he is betrayed. It not, the Professor giving the course must feel very flattered. THERSITES