Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note Mr. Andrews is scratching behind his ear. I have worn my finger down to a nub about this goddam Fair ? ? ? wages bill. I want to know ? Does it apply to my business. After reading volumes and listening to hundreds of opinions, I am still definitely confused. I manufacture upholstered chairs. I have ceased shipping interState. I get most of my raw materials from out of State, such as lumber, fabrics, springs, tacks, etc. Does the fact that getting my materials through interState Commerce make me subject to this act even if I don't ship interState...
...wrote Mr. Andrews several weeks ago, but so far, no answer. This is one of the things that disgusts me with the Administration. They pass a law and worry the hell out of a small businessman like myself because you don't know what to do and can't find out. If I am subject to this law, when are they going to have some local offices so a person can get some additional information...
...item 1) Mr. Ziff states that the British policy has been that of divide and rule. I for one agree with him on that point but to go on further and say that the English have carefully nursed Arab anti-Semitism is a shocking blunder. Since when have the Arabs become Aryans and since when have the Jews acquired the monopoly over Semitism...
...just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank C. Walker, former director of the National Emergency Council ; and the Archivist of the United States, Robert Digges Wimberly Connor; Presidential Friend Felix Frankfurter...
...guests, said the President, would form a committee to raise funds for his plan, taking as their first contribution Mr. Roosevelt's earnings on his already published papers. A historical precedent will be set: Franklin Roosevelt's home becomes Government property. The homes of such predecessors as Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln are all maintained by private organizations. The Roosevelt history trove will include the President's books and pictures on the Navy (best private collection in the U. S.) and a sizable collection on the history of Hyde Park and Dutchess County. Chief lacuna...