Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire's Republican Bridges hastened to introduce a resolution calling for a Senate committee investigation of TVA on 23 "charges." Among the 23: wasting public funds, suppression of audits, interference in neighboring labor disputes, coercion of rural customers, "creating deceptive or untrue propaganda...
Among the amendments voted by the house were provisions prohibiting coercion of non-striking workers by strikers, and outlawing the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. Another measure adopted granted employers to "petition the NLRB for an election to determine the collective bargaining unit in his plant...
...kept on smiling, put his daughter in a private school, was supported by Jehovah's Witnesses who sent him to the courts to seek "justice." Coercion, he pleaded from court to higher court, makes the flag salute an empty form, violates constitutional guarantees of religious liberty. Last week, still smiling but less jaunty, George Leoles said: "Some day God will show them their mistake." In Washington the U. S. Supreme Court had dismissed George Leoles' appeal "for the want of a substantial Federal question...
According to such groups as the American Finance Conference and the National Automobile Dealers Association, extensive monopolistic coercion is practiced by General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. (which finances instalment sales for Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (for Nash, Hudson, Auburn, Studebaker) and C.I.T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (for Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing (TIME, Nov. 22). According to the Department of Justice, their monopolistic methods cost the public $60,000,000. Having listened to evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce...
According to the independents, the growth of these four firms is largely due to pressure from the manufacturer on the dealer. Said retiring A. F. C. President David B. Cassat at last week's convention: "The ways in which coercion is practiced by these factories are in some cases subtle and hidden and in others they are brutally frank. . . . When and if a dealer fails to accede ... it is generally insinuated to him that if he did business with a certain finance company, perhaps he would get more prompt delivery. . . . Sometimes a direct threat of cancellation of his franchise...