Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said grateful Judge Davis: "If it is Constitutional, I am going to file an order here and now drafting you [for emergency service under the judicial retirement act] ... as long as life lasts...
Wishing to add two guest rooms to his house in Framingham, Mass., Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, went to a bank to borrow $2,500. The bank sent his application to the Federal Housing Administration in a routine way. Son James, knowing the Housing Act, offered to bet 50? that FHA would turn it down because the rooms were to be separated from his garage by about 24 inches, therefore not technically part of the building. FHA turned down the application. So the astonished bank lent Son James $2,500 on his face...
Carlisle Lumber Co. (of Onalaska, Wash.). NLRB's jurisdiction extends to strikes called before the Wagner Act was passed, provided the dispute continued afterward...
Thus NLRB concluded an undefeated season in the Supreme Court. There remained only one form of attack which could stop NLRB's work: a change in the Wagner Labor Act itself. Although employers' talk of amending the Act has met little response from Congress, for a time last week it looked as if NLRB in its hour of triumph might be given a sudden jolt...
...correspondents of the New York Daily News, John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...