Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dastardly decision," stormed President Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L.'s Electrical Brotherhood. "These internal matters are things in which the Board has no right to interfere," bumbled William Green. And Secretary Julius Emspak of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers gloated: "The only decision possible...
Whatever its effects on the other two parties to the dispute, the Board's decision left the third party clearly on the spot. If National Electric's President William Christopher Robinson obeyed the Board, he would defy the bench. If he obeyed the bench, he would defy the Board. For either-contempt of court or "unfair labor practice"-he may go to jail. This was a dilemma which all the ripe experience of President Robinson's 70 years could not resolve, and he swiftly sought counsel of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Court of Appeals the Board must also look for ultimate enforcement of its dictates. Whatever the outcome in that jurisdiction, the case will probably be carried to the Supreme Court in another Wagner Act test. At stake is more than a question of labor jurisdiction. It is a question of jurisdiction of two governmental agencies. Intervention of the lower Federal courts in such labor disputes is a direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme...
This week, day after Labor Day , Chicago's public schools were due to open one week ahead of time because the Board of Education, performing a Chicago miracle; discovered in its kitty an extra $900,000 which could pay salaries of its often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city...
When in the late spring of 1497, John Cabot, middle-aged Italian navigator, hired out to England's Henry VII and sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, which he had already visited. On board the little three-masted Mathew were 18 men. Crammed under her planks were such trinkets, knives and cloths that "heathens and infidels" delight to trade for, and in the master's cupboard the commission by which His Majesty agreed to take only 20% of the profits of the trip...