Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Northwest a strike of 60,000 lumberworkers was called by an A.F. of L. union which was demanding a minimum hourly wage...
...General MacArthur had decreed there should be absolute minimum of restrictions upon freedom of speech in Japan. . . . [But] you have demonstrated that the latitude provided cannot be entrusted...
Died. Monsignor John Augustine Ryan, 76, author (Distributive Justice), a crusader for minimum wages, child-labor laws, collective bargaining; from a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Paul. A devoted follower of Franklin Roosevelt (even on the Supreme Court packing scheme), he had declared the demand of World War II veterans for jobs impossible to satisfy in "an economy dominated by the philosophy of 'free enterprise...
...Strauss Goes to Boston perk up as a period piece; the festal splendors of the Jubilee, the starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...