Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curb labor as it had not been curbed in years. On the Committee's table were bills to set up a federal mediation board which would replace Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's conciliation service; bills to outlaw the closed shop, to end industrywide bargaining, to amend the Wagner Act...
...months, did not want to be tagged as conservatives. The Communists saw the danger and fought him tooth & nail. Recently, when Alessandro Cappelletti, burly head of the Land Workers' Union, openly came out for Saragat, the Communists thew him bodily out of his office, later "legalizing" the act by also voting him out of office...
...separate conclaves of international economists last week came major judgments about world hunger. Nothing: the economists said had the force of legislation. Their Governments might or might not act in keeping with their findings. Even if the Governments did take every recommended measure, the world would still not have enough...
...genie, at that time safely encased in the bottle, first rolled up on the industrial shore in 1943. Then, workers at Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. sued, under the Wages & Hours Act, for time spent in the plant before the whistle blew. (They were required to punch the time clock 14 minutes before the actual start of work, to give them time to walk to their benches, put on gloves, work clothes, etc.) A special master threw out the claims, on the grounds that the workers had not proved how much of the time was actually spent in "makeready" tasks...
...another, and uncontested, opinion concerning the Wages & Hours Act, Picard had ruled that an employer is not liable for claims retroactive from the date on which he was notified that such claims were compensable under a new interpretation of the law. Such a ruling on portal pay would cut the claims to very little...