Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. people were witnessing and undergoing an experiment in applied Economy. The Congressmen who initiated it having gone home to their guinea pigs, the officials who had to direct it from Washington went sadly but not silently to work...
...Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge Manton's appeal), Mr. Murphy's men are about to go to work on some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations, and on the powerful stagehands union on charges of labor racketeering. Murphy men are also pressing ahead with their case against William ("Billy") Skidmore, gambling overlord of Chicago. That case might lead to self...
...never try to put Business on the spot, said in Rochester: ". . . The [New Deal] heresies are being swept away; the threats [to Business] are one by one being dispelled; the responsibility now comes directly to industry. Its leaders mast banish unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much more. Said National Association of Manufacturers' President Howard Coonley: "Considerable overemphasis is placed on the claim that Congress...
...Russia wanted as much peace as she could get, even at the expense of pulling her punches in Spain from 1938 on. If she joined the Allies, it might work out that she had merely balanced the European war scales; joining Germany tipped them, she could hope, to an imbalance the lighter side would not dare to challenge...
Overtime is only a figure of speech in Germany these days. Recently Marshal Hermann Goring appointed Efficiency Expert Paul Walther to investigate the coal industry: the men were digging less coal on ten-hour shifts than they had previously dug on eight. Working hours for men have been pushed up until two twelve-hour shifts have been reached in some industries. Men returning from work on the Siegfried Line say that they were driven 15 hours a day-from dawn to dark, with two short rests...