Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly six months the U. S. public has put up with Federal wage-hour regulation in spite of the Wage & Hour Law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because: 1) he is a reasonable man; 2) the Act's demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...
...because he likes Joe Bailey. Over his colleagues in Congress, as over his constituents, he has developed a hold based on respect and confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years his capital residence has been a room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted the Reorganization bill. The New Deal's leader in the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley, even stepped aside in the sharp Senate battle, leaving the generalship to Jimmy Byrnes.* Thus: Reorganization...
Soon Hines became known as a big spender, a heavy bettor at racetracks. His family lived in style. Yet his reported income was modest, its sources vague. He filed no tax returns for the period 1929-35 until the Government cracked down. Then the following items were revealed: $3,300 a year for "services" to the Sun & Surf Club at Atlantic Beach, L. I.; $2,400 to $6,550 a year for "services" to the New Hampshire Breeders (Rockingham Park racetrack company); $4,000 to $5,000 a year from Kenway Construction Co. for "services...
...newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...
...despite the author's avowed aim to present a simple explanation of less technical aspects of relativity, the lay reader becomes quickly befuddled in a bewildering maze of abstract mathematical formulae. But if one discounts these two chapters, the work presents a warm and appealing picture of this modest, publicity dodging genius, whose efforts in the cause of international peace and tolerance have won him almost as much renown as his purely intellectual activity...