Word: stettler
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...national symposium at Kansas City on "The Good Life in an Industrial Era." Sponsor and chairman was able, energetic, pro-labor Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, who as a young priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation reported the effects of Rerum Novarum. "I often...
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