Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosive issue. Under a ruling by Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, no union of either the A.F.L. or the C.I.O. could use the NLRB unless all of its top officers signed affidavits. Lewis explained his refusal boldly: the way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act was to ignore it completely, even to boycotting the NLRB. Other hot-eyed labor leaders had a different interpretation-Lewis, whose miners seldom used the board, was attempting to use the Taft-Hartley Act as an instrument to dominate all of labor...
...tension was hemispheric. In a Calgary, Alberta court, the Crown interrupted his address to the jury to glance at a note. Then he passed it on to defense counsel, who broke into a grin and quickly apologized: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but I have just received today's ball score." The judge suggested drily that the jury would like to know the news too. "Of course, your Lordship," came the answer. "The Dodgers...
Over the yelling of defense counsel, Johnson also identified as Communists sitting in the room: Michael Quill, president of T.W.U.; Austin Hogan, T.W.U. local leader...
...that kind of marriage ends in disaster. . . . Such a merger is not a good thing for the Central." Did W. F. Place, Central's vice president in charge of finance, think the marriage would improve Central's credit standing? Said he tersely: "No." Young's flustered counsel hastily asked for a recess. At week's end, as ICC took the case under advisement, Bob Young was still ruffled over his would-be bride's skittishness. Said he: "It was certainly most unbecoming, under the circumstances...
...nerves between Counsel Denham and organized labor was on. The courts might have to decide the winner. Last week in Fort Worth came the first test. A federal judge held the anti-Communist provision to be legal...