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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner Act should be amended by the next Congress, without endorsing any of A. F. of L.'s specific proposed amendments. These include: 1) separating the administrative and judicial functions of NLRB; 2) protecting the right of any group, however small, to bargain on a craft basis; and 3) permitting an employer to advise his employes regarding...
...blow to Mr. Green, however, was the news at week's end that United Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied...
...that the public utilities are holding back on plant expansion and equipment modernization. Since 1933 the industry has spent some $600,000,000. Critics say potential needs totaled $3,000,000,000. The utilities' argument is that the New Deal's TVA, its Public Utility Holding Company Act, its generally belligerent attitude, have made it next to impossible for utilities to float new security issues. Last week there was evidence to the contrary: investors snapped up $53,000,000 worth of utility bonds, making the month's total more than $160,000,000. But since most...
...summer school has always been known for its excellent courses in the drama, and this year was no exception. John Mason Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, gave the most popular course in the yard. "The History of the Modern Theatre." A one-act tragedy written in Brown's course last year, "Vengeance in Leka", was among the plays put on in the Hasty Pudding Club theatre under the direction of Frederick C, Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Organized in 1892. Great Western was sold under foreclosure in 1909. asked for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act in February 1935. It has never paid a common stock dividend, has never paid its $4 preferred in full. Last year the road piled up a $902,363 deficit. Had it been operating under the ICC-approved reorganization, it would have earned only 1.4% on its capitalization. This fact presumably prompted Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that...