Word: minimum
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Because the first session of the 89th Congress gave Lyndon Johnson so much, most congressional observers expected him to request a minimum amount of domestic legislation in his State of the Union message. They got quite a surprise. Herewith seven areas in which the President asked for legislation...
...cooling-off period has expired. On the other hand, Johnson promised to try again for repeal of Tart-Hartley's Section 14b, the celebrated "right-to-work" clause that allows states to outlaw union shops. He also asked Congress to "improve unemployment insurance" and to increase the minimum hourly wage, probably from $1.25 to around $1.50-still well below the $1.75 wage approved last year by the House Education and Labor Committee...
...includes some of the middle-class residential neighborhood surrounding the school, the bulk of the 136th is a slum, known locally as Vine City. Visiting door-to-door, checking in at all the churches, bars, restaurants, and grocery stores, Julian discussed with his constituents his campaign issues: a $2 minimum wage law, a "liberalized urban renewal program," repeal of "right-to-work" laws, abolition of the death penalty and removal of all voter requirements except age and residence. (The election was held June 16, 1965, before the passage of the voting rights bill...
...went to a meeting one of my opponents held and sat in the back. He told the people there 'what is Julian Bond doing talking about a $2 minimum wage when his father doesn't pay his maid that much.' My father's the dean of education at Atlanta University, and he has a maid. So I got up and told the group that if I was elected my father would have to pay his maid two dollars an hour...
Admittedly, each of these improvements is fairly minor in itself, but, combined, they would make a significant difference in the living conditions at Radcliffe. The core of the problem is that there seems to be no way left to combine quiet, a minimum expenditure of money, proximity to the main activities of Radcliffe, and comfortable living conditions. Off-campus living has been a fair solution to this problem in the past, but now even the desirability of that answer has been reduced; we feel it is time for a more satisfactory solution to be made. Elien Schwartz '68 Julia Spring...