The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour, seven-day work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time and a half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most of the employment of children in “oppressive child labor,” a term defined in the statute. If the national minimum wage wasn't hidden enough, President Franklin Roosevelt also signed 120 other bills to avoid a pocket veto. Prior to the passage of the FLSA, the Supreme Court was the primary opponent of acts and laws similar to the FLSA. They questioned whether the minimum wage was constitutional and determined that it was not in the 1923 Supreme Court case, Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia. This is because they considered them unconstitutional. The FLSA still faced strong opposition in the run-up to its passage, and when it was finally passed, the law had received over seventy amendments. Much of the opposition to the law came from corporate tycoons who feared the law's effects on their companies. This period of the American economy; however, he called for labor reform. The country was still recovering from the Great Depression of 1929, and many of Roosevelt's other New Deal programs had been successful. Additionally, many oppressive working conditions plagued the workforce of both