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Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...
Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5¢ an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
Coal & Coke, Next day another New York State Supreme Court Justice, also in Manhattan, saved NRA from a whitewash score for the week by forbidding a coal company to sell fuel below the price set by code authorities...
Afghanistan, where every shepherd carries a rifle, and boiling in oil is part of the criminal code, is the home of the world's most rugged individualists. But Afghanistan, the nation, is a far more decorous member of the League of Nations than it would have been even five years ago. There are schools in Afghanistan today, and a national university. Credit for its gradual civilization must go to three kings: 1) the chuckleheaded Amanullah, who built racetracks, Roman arches, cinemas, and tried to force his outraged subjects into trousers until they rose up and chased him from...
...days a quaint Victorian ring, there is possibly a question of courtesy as well as of competence. Professors do not as a rule refer publicly to CRIMSON editors or other students by name as slovenly and illiterate, whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...