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...Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook announced he was trying to get self-supporting college students (about half the total number in the U. S.) exempt from NRA restrictions...
...injury of passengers. Hence in most States the clause is meaningless except in a few Western States which limit liability in case of death to $10,000 or less per person. But planes privately chartered like taxicabs to take passengers when & where they want to go have been exempt from this common carrier category. Best the relatives of the dead could do was sue on grounds of negligence, as did the relatives of 14 killed in a chartered Colonial Western Airways plane in 1929, collecting $86,000. Last week privately chartered planes became common carriers too. in a decision...
...public is pretty decent." Public decency was now being put to another test as the coverings were stripped off Mayor Kelly's private finances. Even his friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary District scandal began to fade most people were ready to forgive and forget whatever part friendly, genial Ed Kelly might have...
...status of newshawks, rewritemen, photographers et al. in relation to the 40-hr, maximum work week remained obscure last week. An assistant in NRA opined they were "professional" men, therefore exempt. Next day General Johnson called that a "slip...
...maintain the schedule. Other features of the "partnership" called for: 1) no child labor; 2) no wage cuts to the proposed minimum; 3) no profiteering; 4) no more price-upping than was actually necessary. Fixed-price contracts for future deliveries were to be revised to meet higher costs. Exempt from the plan were doctors, lawyers, preachers, architects, pharmacists and "executive" employes getting more than $35 per week. General Johnson called the whole program "a truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism...