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Black-Connery Bill, giving the Federal Government power to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages throughout U. S. industry, was passed by the Senate just before it adjourned last August. In the House, the bill hit a snag in the potent Rules Committee, which can at least temporarily prevent passage of any bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach...
...clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that his death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background...
...being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could be formally inaugurated...
...fired (layoffs do not count as discharges). For manufacturers this lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought in the spring...
...Atlanta last week the National Preaching Mission, currently touring the U. S. to awaken dozing Protestantism (TIME, Sept. 28), struck its first snag. The Atlanta Constitution had politely editorialized: "There should be earnest and full co-operation by the Christian people of Atlanta in the constructive and inspirational meetings to be held during the next four days." But the Atlanta ministers in charge of arranging these inspirational meetings did not cotton to the Federal Council of Churches' stipulation that at least one Negro be included among the speakers. Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city...