Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...
Equal Rights. Finally, he believes that at some stage of a strike-"after three, six or nine months"-employers should be allowed to fire striking employes. This would be a serious blow at the Wagner Act. Under the Wagner Act, no matter how long an employe stays out on strike, his job is safe. "The present definition has decreased too much the employe's risks in a strike and increased the employer's risks...
...tourists were on hand, bathed and breakfasted, for the 9 o'clock act. A rebel light plane buzzed the hotel entrance, gave loungers there a quick machine-gun burst. By the time the next and last rebel plane swooped down, rotund Bernard Relin, L.A.V.'s New York pressagent, had clucked his willing charges behind stone pillars and solid masonry...
...lawyer specializing in aviation, became the wartime chief executive of Continental Air Lines, left Continental for American. Drinkwater thinks that Western's new stock issue will put it in sound financial shape. To keep it that way, he intends to order a general economic belt tightening. His first act as Western president will be to introduce (on interoffice memos) a Li'l Abner-like cartoon of an Indian (Western's trademark) tightening his belt. Said Drinkwater: "A fat Indian isn't an efficient Indian...