Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railway Labor. Though it failed to rule on the National Labor Relations Act, the Court did uphold, unanimously, the model from which it was drawn-the Railway Labor Act passed in 1926 and amended in 1934. Like the Wagner Act, it compels collective bargaining, empowers a majority of employers to elect their sole bargaining agency, provides machinery for mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably...
...Passed a resolution exempting Joseph P. Kennedy, newly appointed by President Roosevelt to head the U. S. Maritime Commission (TIME, March 22), from provisions of the Merchant Marine act of 1936 which would make him ineligible to serve on the Commission because he had a "substantial" financial interest in a shipping line within the three years preceding his appointment. Declared sarcastic Senator Frazier, North Dakota Republican, after reading a list of Appointee Kennedy's achievements from Who's Who: "In addition to all these very eminent and obvious qualifications, Mr. Kennedy also contributed $50,000 to the Democratic...
...that I believe you are-vote against this iniquitous act and prevent it going out to destroy the reputation that I have built up in 67 years...
...lines, whereas it is the understanding of the Lord Chamberlain's Office that strip-teasers say nothing. Instead of reassuring the British producer who was about to give the Kingdom its first taste of striptease, this official attitude of pointed refusal to censor caused him to cancel the act and he declared: "I guess it's too hot for England...
...story of her experiences written for a London newspaper!" boasted Mile de Fontanges' lawyer, adding slyly, "Of course in London they deleted many of her most amorous details. I can now offer the exclusive publishing rights to her diary, but the newspaper that gets it will have to act quickly! She has had many other affairs, but there is a whole chapter on Mussolini...