Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brian does know that the Wagner Act was designed to promote industrial peace. And he knows that there really hasn't been much peace. But his insight fails him when he concludes that the cause of all the unrest has been the alleged one-sidedness of the Act and the incompetence of the Board which administers it. From the time that the Liberty League persuaded fifty of their most talented legal counsel to declare the Act unconstitutional to the most recent jeremiad of the National Association of Manufacturers, the hostility of an important segment of employers to collective bargaining...
...Republican nominee insists that the Wagner Act must be amended and an "impartial" board be created. But he adduces no evidence of the partiality of the present board and one would think that if such proof existed, he would triumphantly drag it forth. For as a lawyer, Mr. O'Brian probably appreciates the importance of evidence. As a matter of fact, all the evidence supplied by English experience suggests that most employers can have peace if they're willing to bargain with their employees instead of beating them...
...Making. Principal business before the council was the Wagner Act. Having previously determined to amend it in some fashion, they debated just how far to go in rewriting a statute which has not worked out altogether to their benefit. Before the Supreme Court upheld the Act last year, said the council in its annual report, "the administration of the law by the National Labor Relations Board was, on the whole, just and proper. . . . Since the decisions ... the Board has abandoned whatever restraint it imposed upon itself . . . and has brazenly and by official acts declared itself a proponent...
...councilmen recommended that the law be amended so as "to curtail the unlawful assumption of broad powers by the board, also to curtail unlimited discretion in construing and administering the Act, and to make specific the jurisdictional limits of the Board." Specifically: to restrict or abolish NLRB's power to void contracts between employers and unions, require NLRB to recognize craft lines in designating bargaining units, forbid it to sanction independent or "company" unions, reduce its quasi-judicial powers...
...Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...