Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the wake of the Senate (where the vote had been 75-to-5), the House passed (363-to-13) a bill (H. R. 5315) to accomplish this purpose. Not only were injunctions by Federal courts to be severely limited but also the "yellow-dog" contract was to be legally exiled...
...Significance. Fundamental in the new measure was this clear statement of U. S. public policy on Labor: Whereas under prevailing economic conditions . . . the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment, wherefore it is necessary that he have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor . . . in concerted...
...yellow-dog" contract is an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union. Largely because he once upheld the validity of such a contract, so hateful to union labor, the Senate rejected the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court (TIME, May 19, 1930). Declared the House Judiciary Committee reporting H. R. 5315: "The vice of such contracts, which are becoming alarmingly widespread, is that if they are carried to their ultimate conclusion, they would abolish trade-unionism. That is undoubtedly the purpose...
Unlike tennis, contract bridge has no governing body to grade the year's ten best players. Bridge experts, however, have surprisingly unanimous opinions on the matter. Few would have quarreled more than mildly with the ranking, based on play in last year's tournaments, which Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the New York Herald Tribune, made last week for the Saturday Evening Post...
...four of the list are the "Four Horsemen," most celebrated contract bridge team in the U. S. Last year they won the National Open Challenge Championship, the Vanderbilt Cup and enough challenge matches to establish unprecedented superiority. When hulking Hal Sims, onetime tennis champion of South America, and wiry Willard Karn, who looks a little like Ely Culbertson, won the National Pair Championship, they put themselves a notch above their teammates. The question of individual superiority was settled in the first Individual Masters' Championship. The tournament was held at P. Hal Sims's house, in Deal, N. J. Willard Karn...