Roosevelt appeals employers to sign a uniform wage pact
President Roosevelt urged every employer to join a common covenant for a 35 hour week and a $14 minimum wage, plus 40 hours and $15 for white collar workers, to spur mass reemployment and avert a "desperate winter." He warned shirking could jeopardize the New Deal and emphasized voluntary cooperation along with penalties for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Shirkers
White House
Chio
Maxwellurus Promotes Single Tax Schedule for Merchants
Three weeks of experience with the sales tax show less friction than expected. A single uniform schedule replaces July’s multiple brackets, simplifying calculations and extending equitable treatment to all merchants. The Department of Revenue will distribute placards 11x14 inches to merchant groups to aid adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Maxwell
Uni
General Assembly
Department of Revenue
Bristol Board
Post Shatters World Flight Record At Brooklyn Airport
Wiley Post lands Winnie Mae at midnight to set a new world solo circumnavigation mark of seven days and 18 hours. Crowds roar as police shield the plane and the aviator after the historic arrival at Floyd Bennett Field.
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New York
Wiley Post
Floyd Bennett Airport
Brooklyn
Winnie Mae
Harold Gatty
Miss Douglas Named Dean of Women at Lees-McRae
Miss Claire Douglas of High Point will serve as dean of women and head of the foreign language department at Lees-McRae College next fall. She has been assistant dean and foreign language teacher at Davenport College in Lenoir for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banner Heik
Claire Douglas
High Point
Lees-McRae College
Leo K. Pritchett
Douglas
Davenport College
Lenoir
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American Weekly
Baltimore American
Newsboy
C. B. Baughman
Elizabethton
Tenn
J. B. Hagaman
Boone
Maxwell
Chicago
Italo Balbo
Lake Orbetello
Italy
Iceland
Labrador
Canada
Post
N. C
Frank Baird
T. C. Baird
Jordon E. Billings
R. A. Olsen
R. O. Glenn
Wilma Baird
D. S. Moore
James
Maryland
J. M. Shull
Ira T. Johnston
Thomas
Jefferson
Bishop Durst
Wilmington
Warren
Washington, D. C
Episcopal Church
Kent
L. F. Kent
Atlanta, Ga
Piedmont Carolina
Miss Douglas
Lees-Mcrae
Peoples Industrial Bank
Peoples Bank & Trust Company
North Carolina
Commissioner of Banks
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State of
Watauga
G. D. Brinkley
Smith Hagaman
W. H. Gragg
The
A. E. South
Henry
Ford
Oklahoma
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