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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent his miners out on strike. Judge Goldsborough had tried to restrain him from doing just that, but he had done it anyhow. So Goldsborough had charged him with contempt of court. Now Padway was trying to prove that, because of the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act, Goldsborough had no right to issue the restraining order, therefore Goldsborough could not hold Lewis to have been in contempt. In short, said Padway, the court had acted outside its jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Citizen & Sovereign | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...declared that the first act of a dic- tatorship would be to "destroy the labor unions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supreme Court May Get Lewis Case Immediately; Beck Sends Oakland Teamsters Back to Job | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

Originally a professional production of the play was planned for London this winter but Dr. Gerhardi has interested Firth Sheppard, the London producer, in having the cast of the Veterans' Theater act in the production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Will Not Ban 'King in Babylon,' Vets Opener Tomorrow Eve | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

...less favorable" than those he enjoyed before entering the service-or pay a penalty. To Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Ltd., this seemed like expensive nonsense in the case of Colonel Alfred Louis Johnson. The case became the first court test involving a senior executive, under the Reinstatement Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Colonel & the Company | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...years Mary Margaret McBride has brought to the air 45 minutes of what she calls "a good radio voice-the kind that pushes itself up against you." For the first 35 minutes she titters through an interview with a celebrity. In the last ten she really goes into her act-mugging through commercials for 13 sponsors (who pay her about $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goodness! | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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