Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important was a decision on the Norris-LaGuardia Act which sharply limits the power of Federal courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes. A case arose in Milwaukee, when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, appealed to E. G. Shinner & Co. to hire union workers only. The management refused, the union started picketing, and the company asked for an injunction to forbid picketing. District Judge Ferdinand Geiger decided that no labor dispute existed since no employes of the company were on strike, that therefore the Norris-LaGuardia Act did not apply, granted...
...there was no competing union in the field. Admitting that there might be situations in which such an action would not be warranted, the Court nonetheless concluded that in both cases the Board's action was an appropriate way to give effect to the policy of the Act...
...Poor in Hoboken for 42 of his 74 years was bluff, beefy Harry L. Barck. He thought during Depression that the State let the "Relief trust" turn public charity into a racket. Two years ago, when New Jersey turned administration of relief over to its municipalities, he proceeded to act on this belief by cutting Hoboken's Relief rolls from 7,000 clients to 360. Tales were borne to the State capital at Trenton about Mr. Barck bawling out applicants, refusing to buy milk for families with small children. Poormaster Barck's friends retorted that he was weeding...
...First act of a state turned authoritarian is to get itself democratically approved. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin have all "gone to the polls," and those dictators at least retained the form of a secret, written ballot. Last week Europe's newest dictator, Carol von Hohenzollorn, "royal dictator" of Rumania, supplied the newest twist to the technique. He sent his 4,000,000-odd voters to the polls to register orally their support of his three-week-old regime. Names of those voting against the Government were recorded by election managers. When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared...
Like Father Divine, Daddy Grace has had his troubles with the Law. Four years ago in Brooklyn he was convicted of having violated the Mann Act by taking a 20-year-old pianist to Philadelphia and Washington. Sentenced to a year and a day in jail, Grace got the sentence set aside on appeal. Later he was indicted in Baltimore, charged with defrauding the Government of more than $15,000 in income taxes on nearly $200,000 which he was alleged to have made between 1927 and 1932. The indictment was dropped because courts have held that free-will gifts...