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...silk stockings were to be made throughout the nation only on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The automotive industry, whose code expires Dec. 31, requested that it be extended to Sept. 1, 1934. Well pleased with NRA was the Synagogue Council of America, which voted the Administration thanks for the five-day week and "the rehabilitation of the Jewish Sabbath...
...this they expected to crowd into General Justo's five-day visit, also attending Argentine horse races, motor races, the Buenos Aires Inerouzonicbnnar and a big banquet every night. At the first banquet Guest Justo keynoted "international solidarity," Host Vargas "peaceful co-existence...
...higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck for a five-day week at a $25 minimum. Mr. Ford retaliated by closing his Chester plant indefinitely. The strikers moved on the Ford plant at Edgewater, N.J., attempted to enlist its 2,000 workers in a sympathy strike, talked of closing every Ford factory in the land. Observers predicted that before matters...
Most important newspapers abided by the A. N. P. A.'s advice, but not all. The virile Philadelphia Record promptly signed, slapped a large NRA eagle on its front page. The lusty Manhattan tabloid Daily News, which had been on a five-day week for nearly a year, also signed (but not its big brother Chicago Tribune). Said the News in an editorial: "We do not think that the free press argument is a very noble excuse for paying your office boys $13.50 a week instead of the blanket code's $15." Likewise the Milwaukee Journal signed, hired...
...Entertained at a White House luncheon Mrs. Pattie Willis South, 81, a self-invited guest from Nicholasville, Ky. Said Mrs. South: ''Now my aim is to get to heaven." ¶ Started unaccompanied on a five-day trip by air to Los Angeles to visit her son Elliott. At Dallas she declined to be photographed with Governor "Ma" Ferguson & husband, explaining: "This is a personal trip-not political...