Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 3500 and 5000 students are expected to take advantage of the set-up made possible by Assistant to the President John R. Steelman and the Division of International Exchange of Persons of the Department of State, according to the Institute of International Education Inc., which will act as coordinator of the project...
...seamen are workers at sea, not comic opera swashbucklers, and the union they have put together is the N.M.U., certainly no joke. It is a story of men who are reweaving the country's social fabric, men who think about democracy a good part of the time and who act on their thought. The book is called "The Dark Ship," because that is the kind of title that sells books. It should have been called by the title of its second part, The New American, because essentially it is the story of new men and the unions that renewed them...
...admission that the bill would not be perfect. Like all legislation, it would be the result of compromise. Both the Taft and Hartley bills were needlessly complex, and had some confusing passages. Neither represented a fresh start on the labor problem. They were amendments-fairly substantial-of the Wagner Act. But they in no way interfered with the basic purpose of that act, which was to establish labor's right to organize...
...members by persuasion rather than by Government fiat. It would not put any further economic risk into strikes, but it would make it more difficult to call them. It would try, by legal means, to make labor responsible-which it had not been under the free-&-easy Wagner Act...
Whether the bill would bring peace to industry remained to be seen. New rules would provoke new challenges, raise new questions, require new interpretations. Their workability would also depend on labor's political power and on the economic atmosphere. Whether the amendments were practical, as the Wagner Act was not, would have to be determined pragmatically. Lawyers got ready for a field...