Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Ramsay Steel-Mait-land, Minister of Labor: "The reasons why the Government introduces this bill, which is designed to suspend the Seven Hours Act only temporarily, are based upon a plain convincing fact: last year, apart from the Government's Coal Subsidy [TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.], over two-thirds of the great coal exporting firms operated at a loss. . . . The only way of meeting this situation, in the opinion of the Government, is an immediate but not permanent extension in the hours of labor...
...Premier developed his thesis amid a stramash of interruptions. He had no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy...
Yale has made definite plans for organizing religious work under the system of optional attendance at chapel next year. It has been voted to suspend all classroom exercises from 10.30 to 11 o'clock each morning except Saturday so that a service may be held...
Gradually the opposition of the school authorities is disappearing. The Pittsburgh School Board is the latest to make an exception in the case of "Old Ironsides" and suspend their rule because they believe in its patriotic and educational value. Cleveland. St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Buffalo have yet to have their campaigns among the children. Admiral Andrews hopes that before the snow flies the "Old Ironsides" movement will be in full swing in these cities...
...Coblenz alone 97 wine makers were declared to have mortgaged their crops. There a few desperate vintners met to consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums...