On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Lehman appts R M Benjamin and F H Horan to survey administrative law
Japanese launch Lushan offensive endangering Kuling foreigners; repulsed at Blue Cloud Convent, Changkaishan; advance on Kingshan, occupy Tienmen, threaten Ichang and Shashi, Hankow area; renew drive eastward on Tatung-Puchow Ry, capture Fowshan; repulsed at Hungtung, occupy Siaohsien, Kiangsu Prov; Chinese recapture Shentseh, Central Hopeh Prov, and Wuchin, Northern Honan Prov
Lillian (freighter) in collision with Wiegand, off Earnegat Light; crew saved by Wiegand; illus
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.--National defense will be the only controversial legislation before Congress this week. Some sharp debate is expected as the bills for expansion of the army and the Air Corps and for additions and improvements in the navy's air and submarine base facilities follow their course through the Senate, but little change in the measures as they passed the House is anticipated.
PARIS, Feb. 26.--President Manuel Azana of the Spanish Republic left the Spanish Embassy on Avenue George V this evening at 10 o'clock for his brother-in-law's home near Geneva. By this act he abandoned all pretension to act as Chief Executive of the Spanish Republic.
1939Don McKinnon, English-New Zealand farmer and politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand[†]
Sir Donald Charles McKinnon is a New Zealand politician who served as the 12th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and the minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the fourth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.
1939Peter Revson, American race car driver (died 1974)[†]
Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1964 and 1974. Revson won two Formula One Grands Prix across five seasons.
1939United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.[†]
United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half overtime pay. There are no federal laws, and few state laws, requiring paid holidays or paid family leave. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 creates a limited right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in larger employers. There is no automatic right to an occupational pension beyond federally guaranteed Social Security, but the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 requires standards of prudent management and good governance if employers agree to provide pensions, health plans or other benefits. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 requires employees have a safe system of work.