Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the House Labor Committee, amiable Mary ("Aunt Mary") Norton has had a difficult and busy year. She inherited her job when Massachusetts' able young Bill Connery died a year ago. With it, she inherited the thankless chore of trying to push a stiff Wages-&-Hours Bill past an unsympathetic Rules Committee and then through a recalcitrant House. Mary Norton did the best she could. This was to get a majority (218) of House members to sign a petition discharging the committee and bringing the bill to the floor last December, where Aunt Mary's colleagues upset...
Last winter Mary Norton and the Labor Committee set to work producing a new bill. Essentially milder than its original, it called for a 25?-an-hour minimum wage, a 44-hour maximum week, graded to a 4O?-an-hour minimum over the next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised...
...were effectively demolished when five Southern Democrats and three Republicans voted against the six other members of the committee not to give the bill a special rule. Only remaining possibility that Wages-&-Hours would get to a vote this session appeared to be that Labor Committee Chairman Mary T. Norton, who last autumn got 217 of her colleagues to sign a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules Committee, would be able to do so again. Last week her hopes of doing so were raised by a note from Franklin Roosevelt. Excerpt: "I have no personal doubt that...
DAUGHTERS AND SONS-I. Compton-Burnett-Norton...
...Toward A New Music-Norton...