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Labor. "I stand for the National Labor Relations Act and the right of free collective bargaining. I stand for minimum wages and maximum hours, and for legislation to enforce them. I stand for social-security benefits and believe that they should be extended to other groups. . . " But over & over Wendell Willkie insisted: "That is not enough-that is not enough." Collective bargaining was meaningless to a man with no job to bargain with; minimum wages meant nothing to the man on relief; social-security benefits were endangered in view of future financial crises; the only real remedy was an administration...
...profiteering has not been fully curbed. This sort of situation did not sit well with a public facing a new tax load in the form of a purchase tax rising to a maximum of 33⅓% on such items as winter clothing and household goods. Added to these irritants in civilian life was the arrival of Britain's miserable winter weather, the still present threat of invasion, the anxiety of continuing air raids, the problem of keeping a mobilized but inactive army of more than two million men out of mischief, the possibility of another blow to civilian morale...
...June 1937 the last total solar eclipse, longest in more than twelve centuries (7 min. 4 sec. at maximum), was mostly wasted on the Pacific Ocean, where science could not study it. Last week a good enough eclipse (more than four minutes) traveled clear across South America, but it also was wasted. Two parties of U. S. scientists who traveled all the way to the shadow belt with their equipment got virtually no results because clouds veiled the blackened sun. Next chance for science : 1941 in central Asia...
Typical officer pay is that of General Grant's grandson, U. S. Grant III, who as an engineer colonel with 37 years' service is entitled to a maximum of $600 monthly - more than three times what his distinguished granddad averaged in the service. Lowest-paid commissioned officers are the $125 shavetails. Best-off are flying officers, who, to the great envy of Army groundlings, on flying duty get 50% more than the normal base pay for their ranks...
...going to have to pay back the fellows from whose wages you get the money. Who is going to pay them back? The Government? Well, who is the Government? Where is the Government going to get the money? ... I believe we ought to figure on paying for the maximum amount that we can as we go along...