Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that in two years in the Army his dice had netted...
...majority of the workers in two Inland Steel plants, S. W. O. C. decided to lodge against this company its most far-reaching complaint: that by refusing to reduce an oral agreement to writing, the company had refused to bargain collectively in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Last week, Chairman Madden and his two associates agreed with the union...
...defining the issue, however, the board first agreed with the company that it was not compelled to reach an agreement, regardless of the circumstances: "If honest and sincere bargaining efforts fail to produce an understanding on the questions at issue, nothing in the act makes illegal the employer's failure to capitulate to the demands placed upon him." But that was not the question: "It is whether a refusal to embody, in a signed agreement, any understandings that may be reached, constitutes a failure to bargain collectively within the meaning of the act. In essence, the question is whether...
...final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held the $343,000,000 Republic Steel Corp., third largest in the nation, in flagrant violation of the act. Growing out of the strike last summer in Ohio they included: responsibility for causing the strike, open sponsorship of company unions, discriminatory discharges of union members, espionage, terrorization, incitement of violence, responsibility for "an unprovoked attack" on strikers in Massillon which resulted in three deaths and many injuries, all to strikers, sympathizers...
Current state of the Philippines, as defined in the 1934 McDuffie-Tydings Act, calls for complete independence on July 4, 1946. Preceding independence, Philippine trade preferences with the U. S.- whereby sub-quota exports of major Philippine products are 100% tariff-exempt- would be reduced by annual steps, so that by 1946 Philippine products would pay the same tariffs as any other foreign nation...