Word: curtailment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minority Leader Martin took advantage of the week's lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received...
...that "overwhelming military victories" were insufficient to offset the constant flow of foreign money and materiel into China. In the near future they will: 1) enlist the active assistance of Germany and Italy in bringing "diplomatic pressure" against U. S., French, British and Russian aid to China; 2) sharply curtail the interests of those four nations within China...
Also published last week was a list of nine proposed A. F. of L. changes in the Wagner Act. Significantly included were an amendment to curtail NLRB's power to invalidate existing contracts, another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits...
Here Mr. Wallace and his highly paid editor-condensers will continue to work out their plans to meet any emergency that may arise to curtail the Digest's diet-plans which include printing original articles along with advice to consumers on advertised products. Already the Digest is growing much of its roughage in its own back yard...
...councilmen recommended that the law be amended so as "to curtail the unlawful assumption of broad powers by the board, also to curtail unlimited discretion in construing and administering the Act, and to make specific the jurisdictional limits of the Board." Specifically: to restrict or abolish NLRB's power to void contracts between employers and unions, require NLRB to recognize craft lines in designating bargaining units, forbid it to sanction independent or "company" unions, reduce its quasi-judicial powers...