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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] ( FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. [2] [3] It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". [4] It applies to employees engaged in interstate ...
May 13, 1938 (Friday) Mexico severed diplomatic ties with Britain over London's demands for a settlement of claims arising from the Mexican nationalization of foreign-owned oil properties. [24] Born: Francine Pascal, author, in Manhattan, New York. Died: Charles Édouard Guillaume, 77, Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( Pub. L. 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938) was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation ( Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933), that had been found unconstitutional. [1]
The Naval Act of 1938, known as the Second Vinson Act, was United States legislation enacted on May 17, 1938, that "mandated a 20% increase in strength of the United States Navy", [1] allocating $1.09 billion (equivalent to $1,900,000,000 in 2023 relative to GDP inflation [2]) for it. [3] It represented the United States' response to the ...
12. maaliskuuta – Anschluss: Saksan joukot miehittivät Itävallan, liittämisestä (”Anschluss”) Suur-Saksaan ilmoitettiin seuraavana päivänä. 14. maaliskuuta – Adolf Hitler saapui Wieniin ja puhui siellä Anschlussin toteuttamisesta. 14. maaliskuuta – Yhdysvaltain entinen presidentti Herbert Hoover saapui vierailulle Helsinkiin.
AVRO 1938 chess tournament. The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world. Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue ...
t. e. The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest floods in the history of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California. The flood was caused by two Pacific storms that swept across the Los Angeles Basin in February-March 1938 and generated almost one year's worth of precipitation in just a few days.
