Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews, to whom businessmen pray for guidance every day, last week submitted to Franklin Roosevelt the first general report on the actual effects of the Act. Said Elmer Andrews: "Many of the earlier news reports considerably exaggerated the difficulties experienced because of the new Act. The number affected by plant layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were...
...understand," he raised his eyes and saw the trail of the sun far in the west. Softly he spoke, "yet I may and must pray to the gods to prosper my journey to that other world--may this, then, which is my prayer be granted to me." Raising the cup to his lips, quickly he drank off the poison...
...Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio, retired to his chapel to pray...
Died. Martin Bladen, Baron Hawke, 78, famed English cricketer, often captain of England's cricket team, longtime (1883-1910) captain-of Yorkshire; in Edinburgh. His heartfelt prayer ("I pray God no professional may ever captain England") has not yet been denied...
...Sudeten, Su-day-ten or Sudeten? Is P-r-a-g-u-e pronounced Pray-ge, Prog or Prar-gay ? Radio announcers and news commentators do not seem to know...