Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...
Significance. For the time being at least the Supreme Court's Wagner Labor Act decisions reduced the great debate over the President's Supreme Court enlargement plan to an all but academic question, for the immediate reason which drove many liberals to support it was their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions...
...Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, proud author of the historic law thus confirmed, at once took to the radio. This day's decisions, he declared with German-born reverseness, ranked "alongside the work done in the days of John Marshall" (the crusty old Chief Justice who first declared an act of Congress un-Constitutional). Mr. Wagner warned Labor's foes: "Let no one any longer take the law in his own hands, through self-appointed interpreters of what the Constitution means, through hired police or spies. . . ." Had such an act as his been the law long ago, he opined...
...week's end, with a group of self-styled "loyalists" clamoring for an application of the freshly-proven Wagner Act, the company signed a new agreement with the C.I.O. group outlawing strikes for six months, providing for a vote to determine whether the United Chocolate Workers Union or the Loyal Workers Club shall represent the workers. Both claim approximately two-thirds of all employes. Left unchanged by the agreement: wages & hours; Hershey's discharge & disciplinary powers...
...weeks ago, however, the British Theatre was shaken by news that Strip-Tease Dancer Diane Raye had arrived from Manhattan to do her act at the London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...