Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimate Weapon. Recovering its breath this week, the nation wondered: Was this kind of thing going to happen every few years? Strikes in some indus tries could be endured. But a railway strike was unendurable. What had happened to the "model" Railway Labor Act of 1926 which was supposed to relieve the country of such crises?* This was the fourth time since 1941 that the machinery of the act had collapsed...
...act was all right; the trouble was with the behavior of some of the men who were covered by it. When the act's apparatus did not get them what they wanted, the brotherhoods simply threw it away and threatened to use force. In 1941, in 1943, in 1946 and again this year, the brotherhood leaders had gone through the act's elaborate process of negotiation, mediation, conciliation-and then rejected a presidential fact-finding board's recommendations and set a strike date...
...nation also had an issue. What was the value of a labor covenant which could be rejected the minute it did not suit labor? In the case of the Railway Labor Act, the safety and welfare of the nation was involved. All the misters of the brotherhoods had a lot to explain...
...which was supposed to be so good that railway workers were exempted from the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act...
Last week Chief Justice Vinson delivered the opinion of the court. Its essence: restrictive real-estate covenants are lawful-as private agreements-but under the terms of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 they cannot be enforced by either state or federal courts. Without doubt, this was a momentous decision in U.S. judicial history. It would set off no violent upheaval in the pattern of city life. But it removed one of the weapons by which segregation is enforced, and would give the Negro an increasingly better chance to make a decent life for himself...