Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations, the U. S. has been sternly devoted to a policy of isolation and a theory that U. S. safety is best served by a 100% laissez faire attitude toward all international quarrels. After more than 15 years that policy was last spring embodied in a permanent Neutrality Act, just in time to die. For isolation to the U. S. means isolation from Europe and 1937 put isolation in a new light by raising a new problem in the Orient. Having failed to apply the Neutrality Act to the War in China, the President may have made it virtually impossible...
...Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Mostly written before the President's speech, the letter ended with a paragraph written after it in which the statesman who guided U. S. policy in the last Sino-Japanese crisis in 1931-32 said he was "filled with hope" that "this act of leadership . . . will result in a new birth of American courage. . . ." The A. F. of L. urged its members to boycott Japanese goods...
Repeal the Wagner Act? Though the A. F. of L. conspicuously omitted Secretary of Labor Perkins from the speakers' list, the delegates listened with polite hostility to Chairman J. Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board, who flatly denied that his rulings had favored C. I. O. It was, he explained, illegal for an employer to coerce employes into joining any union, and that included A. F. of L. unions. Whenever the Labor Board discovered an employer forcing his workers into an A. F. of L. union as the lesser of two evils...
Holding company death sentence. "As the Constitutional issues are resolved on the Public Utility Holding Company Act there will be expansion, if that act is upheld, in the utility division, where we will have a major...
...Hollywood, ex-Convict Jeareld McDonald was hired as technical adviser for gangster films, decided he wanted to act, secured a "bit." A friend saw the picture, told Mrs. Estelle O'Neal whom he had married in 1927. Mrs. O'Neal had Jeareld McDonald arrested for bigamy because later he had married Mrs. Katherine Mandel without bothering about a divorce. Jeareld McDonald went back to jail for ten years...