Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
Last week in Seattle, Wash., where liquor may be legally purchased only in State-owned stores, the third act closed on a little drama reminiscent of Prohibition's bloody reign...
...currency in relation to the currencies of the great nations which adhere to gold as a medium for settling balances. Would Mr. Morgenthau take some of China's silver in exchange for gold? Mr. Morgenthau was delighted for he is supposed to buy silver under the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. Some of his useless gold would be put back into use; he would get back some of the money he had spent for it since silver certificates must be issued against the silver acquired...
...Office is to be accepted," voted the Committee, thus permitting six huge provinces of India to have cabinets representing a majority of their Indian legislators, instead of a minority which has hitherto been the "impossible situation." But fiery Pandit Nehru, while he has piped down so far as acts are concerned, continued to pipe words. According to his Committee, office is to be "utilized for the purpose of working ... to further in every possible way the Congress policy of combatting the new Act" (Constitution...
...Those in charge of the schools act as if they thought the children had committed some heinous crime which could be expiated only by long years of sadness, mental strain and physical injury...