Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt called Congress into extraordinary session three months ago, he outlined a five-point legislative program which provided for: 1) Crop control 2) Wage, hour regulation 3) Executive reorganization 4) Regional planning 5) Anti-trust law revision Last week when Congress adjourned, it had passed a five-point program which provided for: 1) $225,000 to pay members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session. 2) $12,000 for salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery...
...That men can be trusted to make laws, but only the Supreme Court can be trusted to say what the law means. (He believes that in practice the Supreme Court can decide any question either way given time, as it did in overthrowing New York State's minimum wage law and then upholding a similar one passed in Washington. His parable: Suppose that an old statute taxed horses at $10 a head and ducks at 10? that in time horses became worthless and ducks valuable. At this point legal scholars would redefine the duck, would inevitably rule that "Thomas...
...spot to which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open...
...strike by 18,000 Mexican oil workers which seriously threatened Mexico's depleted Treasury, greatly dependent upon taxes paid by foreign oil interests. Oilmen, already spouting over vigorous President Cardenas' expropriation of 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil lands leased by foreigners, objected vigorously and the wage problem was referred to a Mexican board of arbitration and conciliation. Even friendly U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels protested...
Last week, having thus strengthened his own position and his Treasury's prospects, President Cardenas put the next move squarely up to the 15 U. S companies. He decreed that the $7,000,000 wage increase should go into effect. While Ambassador Daniels muttered, the U. S. companies pondered whether they really would abandon their $175,000,000 Mexican investment...