Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis report will eventually be used as Exhibit A in labor's case against Little Steel. Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper, campaigning for a 65?-an-hour basic minimum wage, was certain that the Davis report "definitely calls for revision in ... Little Steel." At that point, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson rushed to hold the crumbling line once again. To him, the Davis figures proved beyond a doubt that the Administration has done "a good job" in stabilizing living costs. Said he: "We cannot afford to relax...
...list of those Senators who won without a struggle is studded with internationalists: Alabama's Lister Hill, Arizona's Carl Hayden, Arkansas' James William Fulbright, Florida's Claude Pepper, North Carolina's Clyde Hoey-Democrats all; plus G.O.P. Internationalists George Aiken of Vermont and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts...
...Pepper" Martin-taking the hard way back to his old post in Chungking -faced the mortar fire at Peleliu with the first landing wave, found himself pinned on the sands between two quizzical Marines ("I wonder where we are." "It sure ain't Staten Island...
...this would go down easily with most businessmen. But there was a bitter pill: Hopkins would boost the present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...
...Senator Pepper is one Congressman not afraid to be wired for sound. He also advocates television (perhaps envisioning the toe-&-fan dance which Representative Dewey Short of Missouri performed on the House floor in the process of defeating a bill to establish a Bureau of Fine Arts). Says Senator Pepper in support of his bill...