Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting also favored a state law to put a minimum of 35,000 people under local health units. The resolution is contained in the report of a special legislative committee on public health of the Massachusetts legislature. Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health, chaired the meeting...
...Taft bill would have passed out 300 million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
...need is money." If there was a Businessman of the Year it was Automaker Paul G. Hoffman, who left his job as president of Studebaker and climbed into the driver's seat of ECA, the biggest politico-business enterprise in world history. He got it running with a minimum of gear clashing, and Congress found little need for back-seat driving...
Increase of the minimum wage to 75 cents is a long overdue measure and should be passed by Congress without difficulty, Hansen said. "It is a very modest proposal," he said, "and actually the purchasing power of the new minimum wage will be less than that of the 40 percent minimum wage when it was originally passed...
...Minimum Wage Hike Backed...