Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them in their homes. I, for my sins, find I am representative of the Wives and Families Association of those serving. In peacetimes (Oh long forgotten times!!) I have really nothing to do, but now!! It is a terrible legal job and I have to see landlords, to wage unequal battles on behalf of these poor women whose allowances do not admit of the high rents in force here...
...Gompers could speak from the grave, he undoubtedly would tell his heirs in U. S. Labor to get shut of the Wagner Act, of Federal Wage and Hour regulation, of all dependence upon courts, politics and politicians. Until he died in 1924, the founding father of the American Federation of Labor preached that unions should trust first & last in their own economic might, never in transitory laws and governments...
...implying that he will nominate a successor to Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews as soon as Neutrality is out of Congress' way, the President confirmed reports that Mr. Andrews is to be replaced (see below...
...Somewhere in the back of his greying head, the President kept his plans for making the momentously planned Wage and Hour Division into an efficient U. S. agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer...
...woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing for trout. For this job he received no wage at all; he did it just because he loved the work...