Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no visible or audible audience reaction because, according to London journalists, Britishers "assume that when a performer leaves the stage the act is over." They were genuinely surprised when Miss Raye reappeared long enough to shed her dress completely, revealing her torso heavily enmeshed in spangled net. London's press reported next day that "after a long silence 'some few people clapped miserably'," but meanwhile the hardboiled, factual London scout of Broadway's stage sheet Variety cabled...
...reinstate Watson because he had been 'discharged for Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted and the AP appealed from it to the Supreme Court, arguing that the National Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, also called the Wagner Act, was invalid against the AP because: 1) it violated Freedom of the Press; 2) the AP's activities were not interstate commerce; 3) the NLRA was unconstitutional...
Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...
...petitioner is at liberty whenever occasion may arise, to exercise its undoubted right to sever his relationship for any cause that seems to it proper, save only as a punishment for, or discouragement of, such activities as the Act declares permissible. The business of the AP is not immune from regulation because it is an agency of the press. The publisher of a newspaper has no special immunity from the application of general laws...
That the Wagner Act was unconstitutional was denied by the Court in the other NLRA cases decided by the Court that day and the AP's third argument was disposed of by reference to them. Dutifully the AP notified the NLRB to have Reporter Watson return to work the next morning...