Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State borders must to an extent be disregarded and the United States must be taken as one economic area. . . . Evil practices have hidden behind the bugaboo of State rights long enough. . . . We are trying to rid ourselves of the destructive aspects of the doctrine of laissez faire and to substitute a regulated competition which will operate more justly. If present conceptions of State sovereignty stand in the way of that experiment, it will be a calamity. ... If the National Industrial Recovery Act fails, something more radical will have to be tried. ... It is the rainbow of hope against the black...
...battling as fiercely as ever within this industry. They did, however, agree on a 40-hour week, at $18.80 in the North, $16 in the South. Cloak & Suit. Women's garment workers were given a 40-hour week with $14 as the minimum wage. Overtime was prohibited. To rid the industry of sweatshops all goods manufactured under the code were to be labeled NIRA.* Men's Clothes. A 40-hour week at $14 in the North, $13 in the South. Electric Goods. A 36-hour week at $12.60. Contracting. Monthly employment was cut from 206 to 150 hours...
...birth) when word was brought to him that Congress had adjourned. Happy, he turned out the light and went to sleep conscious that he had been blessed as few presidents are: he had 1) got Congress to pass most of the laws he wanted, and 2) got rid of Congress-not in time for him to attend Franklin Jr.'s graduation from Groton next day, but at least before Congress got completely out of control...
...husbands, the two Hollywood Mdivanis proved an expensive luxury. With the first pinch of Depression, Pola Negri decided to get rid of her handsome Prince Serge. While Mae Murray was pondering whether to divorce her David, he and Brother Serge struck oil back of her bath house at Venice, Calif. They organized the Pacific Shore Oil Co. with Actress Murray putting up most of the cash. Stock was sold to every available member of the cinema colony. Divorced by Pola Negri, Serge's second venture was to marry Chicago Opera Singer Mary McCormic...
...last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when...