Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible action while negotiations to end the sit-down strikes without bloodshed were in progress, added: "For that act, a few petty politicians accuse him of treason: for that act, every peace-loving American should praise...
...prominence and legal stature. Donald Wakefield Smith is No. 3 on the three-man Board. At the moment he is No. 1 NLRBeast to the A.F. of L. because the Federation does not like the way he reads the Wagner Act. President Roosevelt has reappointed him over the specific objection of William Green, but he must be reconfirmed by the Senate when it meets. (Chairman J. Warren Madden has two years to serve. Member Edwin Seymour Smith, whom the A.F. of L. dislikes most of all, has three years...
...always concurring with Chairman Madden) have consistently ruled that in plants where unions have been customarily organized or conducted on an all-inclusive industrial basis, crafts may not chisel out skilled segments and bargain apart from the whole. As the principal sufferer from this literal application of the Wagner Act, A.F. of L. is doing all it can to halt the practice. By no means certain that it can defeat Donald Smith's confirmation, A.F. of L. has excellent precedent for bringing corrective pressure. Franklin Roosevelt did as much to the U. S. Supreme Court, won his point although...
...decorations will be maroon. A feature of the dance will be the Kirkland House buffet, which gained considerable renown last year. The dance, which will be informal, is being managed by Thomas S. Galdwin '39, chairman of the Kirkland House Entertainment Committee, and William C. Hurtt '40 will act as head usher...
...slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor Relations Act, and 2) to do something for Minnesota's "forgotten men," the farmers...