Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed last week that President Roosevelt last month pardoned, because of ill health, Broker William L. Jarvis of Newton and Scituate, Mass., who had served 15 months of a five-year prison term for fraudulent use of mails to sell stock. Broker Jarvis and four colleagues were SEC's first big captures...
...better bestir itself politically. Leader Lewis now talked of forming "articulate groups of workers to declare themselves on social, political and economic affairs," and belligerently proclaimed: "Progressive Labor is not retreating." On his recommendation, his board proceeded to woo Youth and Farmers, tease the Aged by recommending $60-a-month Federal pensions for single oldsters over 60, $90 a month for married couples...
...Coal, where John Lewis last month pretty well stymied A. F. of L. for the next two years by winning a contract which binds most of the industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive...
...administration costs must come down to 3.3% (from 5%). > WPA workers (except veterans or heads-of-families aged 45 or more) may work only 18 months at a stretch, then be furloughed two months without pay. Every six months the rolls must be combed to en force this rule.* > WPA workers shall work no more than 130 hours a month...
...Halifax Harbor, after four last slow days in Quebec and the wooded Maritime Provinces, Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth last week wound up their month-long American tour, went aboard the white-sided, yellow-funneled Empress of Britain and headed homeward...