Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress' most serious job last week was tackled by a joint committee on the Wages & Hours Bill. The conferees agreed tentatively on a basic 25? minimum wage, then plunged into the difficult job of writing a compromise bill that would suit both houses. Meanwhile...
...Harold Ickes here, not Secretary Ickes," expostulated the gay and youthful groom in a bright blue suit. "I am not thinking of official business...
...been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
Despite the sudden end of the suit in Judge Geiger's court, another suit before another judge was still an immediate possibility. The companies (General Motors and G. M. A. C. excepted) continued to negotiate with the Attorney General's office for a consent decree. But the final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick...
...days later, Trust-Buster-in-Chief Arnold, who knows the value of publicity, got together with Mr. Cummings and put out a statement making their position clear. There was no earthly reason, they said, even though they were conducting a criminal anti-trust suit, why they should not also consider any "practical solution" which was "of major and immediate benefit to the industry, to competitors and to the public...