Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today ruled that employers may not dis-criminate against union workers in reinstating employees after a strike in a decision which heartened the National Labor Relations Board in its legal battle with the Ford Motor Co., The Ru-public Steel Corp., and other companies. In a session in which labor verdicts rivaled in importance the court's decision to review the entire TVA controvery. the highest tribunal found the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company guilty of discriminating against five telegraphers and validated the Roards's order that they must be reiuntated with back...
...State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean up the city...
...exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black strenuously dis-senting-it held that a $10,000 gift made to an employe for "valuable and loyal service" in 1931 was not taxable as income. Among eleven other decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board in its dispute with Pennsylvania...
...Edmondson is far from the bottom of Nashville's Negro society. A hard-working hospital orderly for many years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese...
Said Amos to Andy: "Dis lady was tellin' me dat de lady what writ Gone Wid de Win is gointa write a squeal, twice as big and twice as long." Delighted Atlantans rushed to telephone Author Margaret Mitchell Marsh, talked instead to Husband John R. Marsh. Said he: "You can tell Amos and Andy she isn't working on a 'squeal' or a 'sequel...