Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour from Manhattan to Seattle and back, Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews found businessmen worrying most about overtime pay for their higher salaried employes. Back in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews gave employers hope that they may soon be relieved of this wage-hour problem. Off-hand in press conference he indicated that he would accept an amendment to the law, perhaps a plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal division...
That Nazi plans have been carefully worked out was evident last week when the German press speculated on the possibilities of a brand-new nation of 45,000,000 inhabitants springing out of eastern Europe, and printed a map of future "Great Ukraine." Most of the new State would be carved out of the Soviet Union, where 30,000,000 Ukrainians live under the rule of Dictator Joseph Stalin, but a sizable chunk would also come out of Poland (3,200,000 Ukrainians) and a generous slice out of Rumania (800,000 Ukrainians...
...Brussels, the German Ambassador refused to allow an Austrian singer and two German dancers to entertain the Foreign Press Association at its dinner until assurance had been given that Nazi newspapermen would not be humiliated by having to listen to Josef Schmidt, German-Jewish tenor, sing in German. Instead, Tenor Schmidt sang songs in French, Rumanian - and Italian - which made the Italian press attaché hopping...
Most pointed gibes at Nazi Germany were made at the Anglo-American Press Association's annual dinner in Paris last week. A playlet depicted an imaginary second Munich conference at which Mr. Chamberlain, who had just promised Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked: "What would you have said, Adolf, if I had answered 'No' when you asked for the Sudetenland?" The German Chancellor wept into his sleeve, replied: "Ach, Mr. Chamberlain. You wouldn't have been an English gentleman...
Many other British statesmen have been called just as bad or worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...