Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power to protect property rights or punish illegal acts...
...act and a half, I Married An Angel pins all its hopes on being fluffy, fleecy, feathery swansdown. And fluffy, fleecy, feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent; never more so than in the scene where she is visited by her sister angels from Heaven and floats across the stage cooing their names: Clarrinda, Rosa-leena, Seronel-la, Arabella. In the same mood are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes: I Married An Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here...
...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...
...Committee lifted Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr.'s all-inclusive broadcasting investigation demand out of storage by earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries. The suit was settled by 1932 amendment of the companies' wire service and radio manufacturing agreements...
...pressed railroads (carloadings last week were 30% under those of a year ago). Added to the list of proposed emergency laws was the first draft of a bill presented by Labor Executive George Harrison to allow railroads to reorganize without entering the courts under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. This section, the roads' only present recourse when they go to the wall, is so phrased that not one of the 25 Class I roads to try it has succeeded in reorganizing because bondholders have been unable to agree with stockholders as to which will take the loss...