Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hughes also called for a uniform minimum wage of $1.50, and for a medicare program for the entire population, not just those over...
...also called for raising the minimum wage to $1.50 an hour, opposed a ban on secondary boycotts, and won further applause when he assailed the McClellan committee because "it has defamed labor's good name and threatened its basic rights...
...military positions in the government, the Democrats had one principal characteristic: undying hatred of ex-Dictator Juan Peron and the outlawed, 3,000,000-man Peronista political organization. Their name derives from the form of government they propose-"democratic dictatorship," or direct military rule for a minimum of five years...
...Bohrod is concerned, abstractionism has had it. Says he: "There never was any real love for the idiom, and now the art world is bored to tears with it. Not. of course, the abstract painters themselves, who with a minimum outlay of talent and energy have had their fun for a long time, . nor the dealers who have made money out of it. nor those museum people who have committed themselves so deeply that no graceful or easy exit is open to them...
...South a maid can draw as much as $75 a week, a cook more than $90-both with room and board included if they want it-and a chauffeur about $80 to $100 a week. Day workers usually charge by the hour, rarely get less than the $1.25 minimum wage and often get up to $2.50. Whatever the pay-and many families are willing to pay much more than the average to get help-rapid turnover vastly complicates the servant problem. In fact, many household workers, like their employers, now like to stay North in the summer, then quit when...