Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike its predecessor which the House voted down last December, the bill which Mr. O'Connor's committee met to consider last week had the support of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. It called for a minimum wage of 25? an hour, rising 5? an hour annually for three years to a 40? an hour minimum in 1941; and a maximum hour schedule of 44 hours a week, reduced two hours a year to 40 hours in 1940. What the bill lacked was a regional differential to permit Southern industry to continue reflecting climatic...
...seems to us most important that we should all resolve to encourage the President in every effort he shall make to restore confidence and normal business conditions, and to support Congress in the position that its legislative program should be directed for national recovery for employer and employe alike rather than toward the enactment of legislation based upon untried social and economic theories. . . . We pledge ourselves...
...Lincoln. Son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he was born in La Crosse, Wis., 45 years ago, went to work after high school as a fireman for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Nineteen years later he had risen to be a conductor, got into the Wisconsin Legislature with the support of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Next he acted as the Brotherhood's lobbyist in Madison, Wis. Then in 1930 he went to Congress as a Republican...
Before fifteen hundred cheering and jeering Yardlings, celebrities of stage and screen, headed by the original fan and bubble dancer, Sally Rand, did their part to support the 1938 Freshman Smoker celebration...
...many reasons, the Keystone State primary will be watched chiefly for the demonstration that it will give of C. I. O. strength. The Democratic leaders, split wide open, are going before the voters with two slates. On one, Thomas Kennedy is running for the Bourbon gubernatorial nomination with the support of both the C.I.O. and Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Opposing Kennedy is a Democratic gentleman named Jones who, in 1932, committed the crime of supporting Alfred E. Smith over Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Jones has the support of the regular Democratic organization which includes Governor George H. Earle...