Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor, facing the Taft-Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
...position to defy Congress and make his assault on the new law by crippling the nation's economy. But the Taft-Hartley law apparently could not touch him. With the end of the Smith-Connally Act and the return of the mines to private owners, the miners argue, they would have neither contract nor employer. Until Lewis signed a new contract, the miners would simply be men who had just decided not to work for a while...
...lawyer's eye, there seemed to be many another loophole and many an arguable provision in the Taft-Hartley Act, as there was in the Wagner Act. Final interpretation will only come, as it did with the Wagner Act, after years of litigation in the nation's courts...
...highest court also ruled (5-3) that a Chicago federal court had been wrong in ruling that the Lea act, a measure aimed at curbing Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, was unconstitutional. The court ruled that it was constitutional, and that radio stations do not have to hire Petrillo's stand-by musicians when broadcasting transcribed programs...
...thing, confiscation of State endowments would deal the Church a grave financial blow. Far worse, Disestablishment "would be regarded, however illegitimately, as the national repudiation of religion." Further, the Archbishop cited what Poet-Essayist T. S. Eliot wrote in The Idea of a Christian Society: "The very act of disestablishment separates [a church] more definitely and irrevocably from the life of the nation than if it had never been established...