Word: norton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House last week with fire in her eye rose plump, weathered Labor Committee Chairman Mary Teresa Norton. Prodded and sustained by the powerful gentleman at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Mrs. Norton had for a second time persuaded the House to take the Wages-&-Hours Bill away from the Rules Committee which had pigeonholed...
...last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within two years to 40 hours. It did not provide the one thing...
...Personally," exclaimed Wisconsin's Progressive Gerald Boileau whom Mrs. Norton had designated to speak in favor of the measure, "I do not believe any man in the country, whether he be in the North or the South or the East or the West, should be obliged to work and provide for a family on a wage of less than 25? an hour or $11 per week...
EARTH MEMORIES-Llewelyn Powys-Norton...
Inasmuch as she is considered a friend to U. S. Labor, Aunt Mary Norton's political origins are incongruous. She is a protegee of Labor's No. i bete noire, Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague, who while Aunt Mary was winning her parliamentary battle last week was preparing for a very different battle of his own, v. Representatives O'Connell and Bernard. * That Mary Norton is a political ally of Boss Hague by no means argues a lack of sincerity in her efforts on behalf of labor legislation. On the other hand, neither her sincerity...