Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives can limit the destructive criticism, which lately has gained such a glorified position, to the necessary minimum, the threshing out of student problems may be accomplished. The exchange of opinion; the diversity of conditions presented, and the progressive attitude will benefit everyone at the Conference. Whether a sufficiently constructive program can be devised remains to be seen. Certainly the morbid, disillusioned point of view that is making itself obnoxious at several colleges will produce little but more discontent...
...Supreme Court Has Aroused Resentment In deciding that the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has subjected itself to criticism on two grounds...
...approved a statute providing for payment for overtime at the rate of time and one-half of the regular wage. As the dissenting Justices argued, if the amount of a commodity to be disposed of can be limited in the interest of public health and welfare, why cannot the minimum price to be paid therefor be similarly restricted...
...decision in the minimum wage case has most dangerous possibilities. Any amendment which would provide for the true contingencies on the theory that the Supreme Court will be a reactionary body would probably strike at the foundations of the constitution. Resort is therefore being had to the suggestion that the power of the Supreme Court to declare statutes unconstitutional be limited, and there is danger of an ill-advised attempt to obtain a constitutional amendment providing for such a limitation...
...reaction of the general public to the Minimum Wage decision see pages...