Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate battle over John Kennedy's minimum wage bill began, White House Aide Larry O'Brien sent a message to organized labor's lobbyists: "Leave the Democrats to us. You go after the Republicans." O'Brien figured he could twist Democratic arms by invoking patronage promises and the pressures of party loyalty; labor was delighted at the chance to prove to the Administration that it has the power to sway Republican votes. Last week the strategy worked perfectly...
...week, after analysis of the 1960 census results, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges announced that a point on Kleiboeker's farm has become the population center* of the'U.S.-defined by Hodges as the spot at which the nation's 179 million people can convene with the minimum travel mileage...
After the deciding vote on the resolution, debate resumed. Michael Hornblow '62, sponsor of the motion, asked for a recess to regroup his forces. When the meeting re-opened, a quorum was called since much of the large crowd had left. The first count was 19, the minimum needed to do business. Phillips asked for another call, however, and when only 18 members answered he declared the meeting adjourned...
...secondary school, I wish to express the interest and pleasure I took in reading your report on teaching machines. I fully agree with Komo-ski's opinion on the displacement of teachers. Every teacher feels frustrated and ineffective when faced with the problem of "getting across" a minimum body of factual information upon which subjective analysis must be based. On the one hand, he has the psychologically sound three Rs of learning: repetition, reward and reinforcement. On the other: one voice, one text and 43 minutes. The teaching machine probably...
...conservative grip on the House Rules Committee by a skimpy five votes, and only then because Speaker Sam Rayburn had staked his personal prestige on the outcome. The President suffered a widely advertised defeat when the House, by a one-vote margin, rejected his proposed $1.25-an-hour minimum wage. Such key Kennedy-backed measures as aid to education and medical care for the aged face hard going and possible defeat...