Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make all that is human in its readers revolt. First we are told that the needs in dollars of hungry peoples come for 1947 to $583 million, then that a sum far greater is being lavished on atomic research by the very Governments which "might or might not act in keeping with their findings" concerning hunger...
...second bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner act). It would guarantee employers the right to state their position in a labor dispute. It would protect craft unions and minorities from the past tendencies of NLRB, which often ruled in favor of big industrial unions. Thus the bill would "strengthen, not weaken, the rights of employees," said Ball. But it would not touch labor's right to organize, the cherished and long-fought-for right which the Wagner act insured...
Ball had had some expert help in drafting his measures. Gerard Reilly, onetime member of the National Labor Relations Board, onetime Labor Department attorney and author of the minimum wage bill, now a Washington attorney and a good friend of Ball, had helped him write the Wagner act revisions. Donald Richberg, onetime labor lawyer and now a corporation lawyer, had helped Ball chiefly with the measure against industry-wide bargaining. Richberg was the man, say labor leaders, who led Ball "astray...
...Deal, he thought, had lined up on organized labor's side and had become an out-&-out partisan of a single segment of U.S. society. The Norris-LaGuardia Act had put labor pretty well beyond the reach of legal injunctions. The National Labor Relations Act insured labor the right to organize. The NLRA in itself was not pernicious. But various interpretations of it plunged boards and courts into a swamp of contradictions. Both acts disarmed management, a fact which labor leaders were able to exploit to the full...
Today things have changed, but not much. No more Victor Herbert, but Irving Berlin is very much around with a huge and highly entertaining hit called "Annie Get Your Gun." Ethel Merman is the star, but you don't see her until well into the first act, after reams of talk about her, and otherwise the show is complete with tenor, girls, comedian, and all other standard equipment, the most important of which is the feeble plot. While the non-musical stage and even the movies have moved with the times, the musical-comedy, with few exceptions, has lingered lucratively...