Word: charta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed the employer's power to discharge men for union activity.- But by 1935 Congress had put teeth in Section 7A of the old National Industrial Recovery Act, brought out the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, and U. S. Labor had what it proudly hailed as a Magna Charta...
...brief moment, Labor beheld the dawn of a millennial day. But the cream of the country's lawyers confidently advised employers to pay no heed to NLRB rulings. When the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act, tories and liberals alike were dazed. Labor's Magna Charta would work. Antiunionism was powerless...
...this most recent chapter of Labor's history, political moralists could find much to marvel at, little to approve. Labor's Magna Charta was obviously in peril; equally obviously, the peril had arisen in part from zealotry in the Government and greed in the house of Labor itself...
...Said an official spokesman: "The stealthy trip into a U. S. harbor does not speak well for British confidence in victory. First the British took gold over there, then apparently other treasures, and forgot to bring back certain historical documents [i e., one of four copies of Magna Charta, deposited in the Library of Congress]. Now they must pay $1,000 a day docking charges. . . . What is the Queen Elizabeth anyway. It is not even finished. In fact, it is half a skeleton. Now, the Bremen-that was something...
Sweden has had a free press for 174 years, guaranteed by one of the most liberal constitutions in the world. The Free Press Statute of 1812, Magna Charta of Swedish journalism, is one of the four basic laws of Sweden. It gives every citizen the right to publish what he pleases, makes censorship of any kind illegal...