Wage Hour Bill Distinctly Not Like the NRA
Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson told a joint congressional committee that the proposed wage and hour bill is distinctly not an NRA measure. He defended the bill’s framework, warned a flat minimum wage could threaten constitutionality, and tied the act to broader interstate commerce powers while urging removal of a child labor blemish from judicial history.
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Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Joint
Congressional Committee
Jackson
Keller
D-Ill
Administrative Board
Ellender
D-La
Congress
Justice Holmes
Senate labor committee chair presides over commerce fairness remarks
Chairman Black of Alabama leading the senate labor committee presided over remarks on establishing commerce among states based on industrial justice for disadvantaged men. The brief Senate session highlighted policy aims and the role of federal labor standards in interstate trade and workers' rights.
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Black
D-Ala
Senate Labor Committee
Breach suit filed against boxer Ceferino Garcia
In Los Angeles on June 2 AP reports boxer Ceferino Garcia faced a $125,000 breach of promise suit. Morning Crowder a 20 year old Indian testified he forced her at knife point to accept advances and promised marriage then suggested she wed his trainer instead.
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Los Angeles
Ceferino Garcia
Morning Crowder
Automobile official dies of injuries at Indy 500
Olta C. Rhode aged 49, vice president and chief engineer of Champion Spark Plug Company of Toledo, Ohio, died at Indianapolis city hospital from injuries suffered Friday in a preliminary accident at the 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Indianapolis
Olta C. Rhode
Champion Spark Plug Company
Toledo
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Poe and Schmeling Fight Haunted Ring Tonight
Today’s sport parade imagines Poe’s Raven as a ring companion and a comic ghost tableau. “Mr X” has no plan to attack and will drift until inspiration hits. Telepathic retinue, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Morpheus and Buck Rogers stay behind to watch. Mr XK wears white sheets and six ounce gloves. If Schmeling wins the ghost will retire until next Halloween.
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Poe
Raven
Mr. X
Schmeling
Peter Pan
Tinker Bell
Morpheus
Buck Rogers
Mr. XK
Hallowe'en
Severe storm sweeps St Louis suburb with winds over 40 mph
A 42 mile an hour gale ripped through St Louis suburb uprooting trees and toppling chimneys while Lambert-St Louis Airport logged 49 mph winds. Weathermen reported little damage at the airport.
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ST .Louis
Lambert-St. Louis
Operation Aims to Halt Growth of Pituitary Tumor
Physicians at Hahnemann hospital plan a surgical operation to remove a tumorous growth from the pituitary gland of 20 year old Sue De Crescenzo of Scranton. She grew to six feet three inches and 243 pounds since childhood, up to normal size at age 14, with the operation described as the path to halt abnormal growth.
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Philadelphia
Sue de Crescenzo
Scranton
Hahnemann Hospital
Everett Dickinson
Storms sweep Missouri with heavy rainfall and winds
A statewide storm line delivered scattered rain and heavy gusts yesterday, chiefly along the Missouri river and south-central areas. Two-thirds of stations reported rainfall with amounts from light to heavy while St Louis endured a 42 mile gale causing damage to trees and wires as temperatures dropped from 81 to 95 earlier. Morning lows ranged from .62 to 68 degrees with numerous towns logging notable rainfall totals.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Missouri River
South Central
Boon- Ville
Sedalia
Chillicothe
Columbia
Hannibal
Kansas City
Macon
Maryville
Rolla
St. Joseph
Springfield
Unionville
Earhart Lands Plane in Venezuela Town
Amelia Earhart landed at Caripito Venezuela at 10 18 am EST aboard a Pan American flight from San Juan Puerto Rico She and navigator Capt Fred J Noonan planned an overnight stay at Standard Oil guest house before departing for Paramaribo Dutch Guiana and then Natal via Para Brazil
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Miami
Fla
Pan American Airways
Amelia Earhart
Caripito
Venezuela
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Fred J. Noonan
Standard i
Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
Natal
Para
Brazil
Aviatrix
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