Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open" rule. That would let Graham Barden of North Carolina substitute on the House floor his own wage-hour amendments, which are anathema to the New Deal. Mr. Barden's amendments would take 2,000,000 workers out of wage-hour law benefits; permit their employers to pay less than 25? an hour, work them more than 44 hours per week...
...week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year's appropriation to pay for the "Code of the French Family" was 9,000,000,000 francs...
...Baptist groups which do not believe in foreign missions and "human institutions" such as Sunday school do not belong to the Alliance. Stay-at-homes-unless they wished to pay 25? to sit in the audience at night meetings of the congress-were Foot-Washing, Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit, Hard Shell Primitive, Six-Principle, Seventh Day, Free Will, Streaked Head Baptists. All these sects are small, quirky...
Last week as the option deadline lapsed, the four stayed clam-silent. This meant that United might have to pay more for the six DC-4s it bought last fortnight. But it also meant that if President Patterson's hunch is sound, when the DC-4s are operating in 1941, United might bag the lion's share of transcontinental air traffic...
...make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher, not as a wife...