Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the law, if passed, stop strikes? The Smith-Connally Act, also passed in a spasm of congressional rage, had simply multiplied and complicated the very troubles it sought to cure...
...Committeemen like elderly Senator Elbert Thomas, James E. Murray, James M. Tunnell, Joseph Guffey, Claude Pepper, were routed. The driving forces were Senator Taft and Minnesota's Joe Ball, both pressing for permanent labor legislation which would correct the in equities of the well-meaning but lopsided Wagner Act...
...Workers (as well as management) must bargain collectively. (Under the Wagner Act workers can now bargain or not, as they like...
Unwieldy Law. But, as Broido knew, the priority system was put into the badly drawn Surplus Property Act by vote-conscious Congressmen, would probably stay there. Said Broido of the hodgepodge act: "You could be the smartest merchant in the world, Old Man Original Macy or Gimbel himself, and you couldn't do a very good job . . . with this legislation...
Wilde, he declares, was a great doctor, although his detractors have put him down as a mere provincial medico. He was certainly no saint, and his quick temper and generally unwashed appearance made him act and look like even less of one. "Why are Dr. Wilde's nails black?" asked Dublin wags. "Because he scratches himself." But his Aural Surgery (1853) was the "first textbook of importance" on the subject. He was Ireland's first Surgeon Oculist in Ordinary to the Queen. The eye-&-ear hospital he established in Dublin in 1844 was for years the only...