Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either a "phony or a hypocrite." Yet scores of Congressmen, Senators and other politicos thought that fellow Texans Johnson and Rayburn had just possibly planned it that way. Looming congressional action on such key party-line bills as medical aid to the aged, federal aid for schools, housing and minimum wages was bound to give Johnson special leverage at the convention, bound to give him special influence on the campaign itself, whoever the nominee might...
...House Republicans and Southern Democrats, by a vote of 211 to 203, substituted a trimmed-down minimum wage bill for a more ambitious measure pushed by the liberal-controlled Labor Committee...
Workers now covered would win a new hourly minimum of $1.15, instead of the $1.25 asked by the committee and the Administration. Some 1,400,000 newly covered workers, mostly in retail services, are guaranteed a $1 wage floor (the present minimum), but are excluded from time-and-one-half overtime provisions. The bill may run into trouble in the Senate, where a broad-based (3,500,000 new workers). $1.25 minimum wage bill, backed by labor, has the right...
...minimum sentence under the law, said Slade, is twelve months' imprisonment. That was what he imposed...
...time was at hand to convince the bosses of the big holdout states that they would be left far behind at the Los Angeles convention if they did not scramble aboard. But there was no stampede. In New York, the delegates' caucus at Albany handed Kennedy a predicted minimum of 87 out of 114. In Manhattan, Kennedy himself paid a call on the Liberal Party policy committee and pledged lasting devotion to civil rights, announced that he had no strength in the South and was seeking none. (Coupled with a Washington endorsement of Negro sit-in strikes -"the American...