Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five major bills were voted by the Chamber in two exhausting sessions by such colossal majorities as 528-to-7 and 563-to-1. A stand was made by Capital against Labor only on the most drastic measure, that intended to make 40 hours the maximum working week hereafter in French industry. Standard in France since 1919 has been the 48-hour week. The 40-hour week passed the Chamber last week 385-to-175, went to the Senate along with the four other bills which seek to compel two-week vacations with pay for all French workers, collective labor...
First total solar eclipse since February 1934, at its broadest, near Lake Baikal, the shadow across Asia's face was 82 miles wide. Length of path: 8,900 miles. Maximum duration of totality: 2 min. 31½ sec. For months past the Soviet Government has been sending lecturers and demonstrators into villages along the eclipse path, so that ignorant peasants would not become terrified and backslide into orgies of religious propitiation...
...conception of the relationship that exists between the privately endowed educational institution and the nation. Pursuing this line of thought he has reached conclusions which have led him to strike out on the road toward a Harvard suited to serve both the United States and humanity with a maximum of efficiency...
...years after the Russian working people hopefully staged their Revolution, they were promised for adoption, at a date not yet announced, a new Constitution to defend their personal rights and interests. According to All Union Chief Prosecutor Vishinsky a special object of the new Constitution will be "to provide maximum precautions against unwarranted indictments and unjust convictions" and to protect the individual "even against wrongful prosecution by the State...
...chief talking point of conservatives in their attacks on the extreme measures of the New Deal has always been that the Washington government was trying to perform duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative...