Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco docks. Warehousemen and longshoremen continued to work but jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...
...that jurisdiction, the case will probably be carried to the Supreme Court in another Wagner Act test. At stake is more than a question of labor jurisdiction. It is a question of jurisdiction of two governmental agencies. Intervention of the lower Federal courts in such labor disputes is a direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme law of the land on the subject matter covered by it. It empowers the Board to prevent any unfair labor...
...pocked streets of Madrid. Twenty miles southeast of Saragossa is the mountain-encircled town of Belchite, which boasts a nearby airdrome and is a most important strategic point on General Franco's long Saragossa-Teruel salient. For five days Leftist heavy artillery blasted at Belchite, then came the direct frontal attack led by suicidal dinamiteros. Fighting from house to house the Leftists wiped out two whole companies in Belchite's town hall, captured a detachment entrenched in a seminary and took the town. Leftists announced 1,500 Rightists had been killed, 1,000 captured including...
...week advanced the Japanese felt more and more convinced that the Chinese-Soviet non-intervention treaty signed fortnight ago contained a great deal more than appeared on the surface. From Russian Turkestan to Inner Mongolia (with direct connection to Moscow) a Soviet air line was reported suddenly established last week. Among the first passengers is expected none other than sallow Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, whose "kidnapping" of Chiang Kai-shek was one of the preliminary steps to last week's war. Naming places, Japan charged that 72 of 210 Russian military planes had been delivered to Nationalist China...
Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...