Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same measures for agriculture were smothered by margins only slightly smaller. Sentiment was 4-to-1 against court-enforced government codes for business; nearly 4-to-1 against government regulation of business profits. The Board grew specific about regulation. What about letting the Government set minimum wages and maximum working hours? Yes, replied more than half of the editors. Nearly three-fourths of the editors were sure their communities did not want the Government to redistribute wealth by taxation or any other means. Nine-tenths were against any rise in the national debt. But one New Deal theory which...
...week by results of a New York Herald Tribune questionnaire. Of nearly 5,000 U. S. newspaper and farm journal editors who replied, two-thirds reported their communities solidly behind some compulsory government sys tem of old age pensions. Of many another New Deal plank, only minimum wages and maximum working hours got a bare majority of editors' eyes. Says Dr. Townsend: "Poverty once considered a natural curse which the human race was doomed to endure, can and will be abolished in the United States within the next five years, never to return...
...every morning before ten. He submitted grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried under the Bankruptcy Law. If again acquitted, he will be tried by the State of Illinois...
...Railway Association ruled that each railroad should load idle foreign cars in preference to system cars destined for other tracks. Several railroads have "frozen" per diem agreements providing a fixed penalty period for foreign cars, usually from three to five days. Thus, foreign cars may be held, with a maximum penalty charge of $3 to $5 per car, pending such loading as may be in prospect. Empty hauls are thus substantially reduced...
...Schoor's experts stretched the maximum pickerel shrinkage to three-quarters of an inch. The jury was out two hours. Said the foreman: "Guilty." The judge: "$50." Emil Schoor threatened to appeal...