Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America in the shipyards of the Port of New York, involving some 15,000 workers. After a shutdown the shipyards began to reopen, bringing almost daily picket line clashes between strikers, workers and police. Cited by the National Labor Relations Board, big Todd Shipyards Corp. had been hailed before a trial examiner, who cried in exasperation last week that the hearings had broken "all records" for perjury. Picketing injunctions had been flagrantly violated. Though severely stoned on several occasions, the New York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might...
...different from a lawsuit. We have to let in hearsay evidence and immaterial things so we may get at the material things. The strict rules of evidence are not followed. Only the material facts are considered in the trial examiner's opinion and in the rulings of the Board. The immaterial is rejected. Rulings on objections are entirely within the discretion of the trial examiner. Nobody is injured or harmed by this procedure. We are charged with the duty of conducting the inquiry on a thorough and fact-finding basis...
...done a thousand times before during the National Labor Relations Board hearings on the Ford Motor Co. case in Detroit (TIME, July 26), Louis J. Colombo Sr., the swart, able Ford counsel, shouted one day last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when...
Next day just before he wound up the turbulent Ford hearings, preparatory to submitting his report to the three-man Labor Board in Washington, Examiner Lindsay gave a little dissertation on the theory of Labor Board hearings, a type of procedure which has baffled many another lawyer beside Mr. Colombo. Said the trial examiner...
Having cogitated SEC's friendly criticism and suggestions, the Council's president, able, chubby J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., requested the Secretary of State and SEChairman to appoint a two-man "Board of Visitors" to descend upon the Council ''from time to time with or without notice." For his man. Secretary of State Hull last week designated Herbert Feis, State Department adviser on international economic affairs, and SEChairman James McCauley Landis named the SEChairman-presumably Commissioner William O. Douglas, who is slated to succeed Mr. Landis when that New Dealer retires next September to take...