Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Other newsworthy speeches were made by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was booed when he opposed U. S. recognition of Russia; Robert Paine Scripps, president of Scripps-Howard newspapers who demanded a shorter workweek, a wider distribution of wealth; Frank Murphy, red-headed Mayor of Detroit, whose description of his city's $2,000,000 per month Unemployment relief brought forth great cheers. Present at the conference as a silent spectator, was Ohio's Democratic Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, whose friends hope to put him in the White House (TIME...