Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill vacancies in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the President appointed Calvert Magruder, counsel of the Wage & Hour Administration (1st Circuit, Boston) and Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas (10th Circuit, the Southwest...
Magruder is a strong New Dealer, in 1934 and 1935 acting as counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, at present legal adviser for the Wage-Hour Division, and a staunch supreme of the President's Supreme Court program...
...Mayor's committee obtains a settlement favorable to Cambridge, much of the credit will go to McNamara; if Cambridge comes out on the short end, it is more than likely that McNamara will wage a prolonged anti-Harvard campaign, playing on resentment at the University's vast holdings which city tax-collectors cannot touch, as a stepping stone to the Mayor's office...
Franklin Roosevelt is for junking Neutrality, too, but in a different way and for different reasons than Witness Baruch. The President wants a hand entirely free to wage economic war on the Dictators. In this desire he has the backing of such politically opposed authorities as the Baltimore Sun and New York Herald Tribune. But for political convenience, the President is willing to accept simple extension of the cash & carry clause, so long as he is not straitjacketed by any clauses making his actions mandatory...
Last week the Social Security Board announced that for 30,165,694 U. S. wage earners on its rolls during 1937 average pay was $890 a year. Also last week, the House Ways & Means Committee published the names and salaries of some 50,000 wage earners who brought up that average by drawing $15,000 or more from their employers during 1937. It was the longest list the Committee has released since the practice was instituted in 1936. It was also the last of its kind, since the 1938 tax bill upped the publicity requirement to exclude salaries under...