Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed did not of course take part in a unanimous and significant decision that was promptly handed down. Written by Justice Brandeis it held that Federal District Courts were without power to enjoin the National Labor Relations Board. The case involved Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Said Justice Brandeis: "Since the procedure before the Board is appropriate and the judicial review . . . is adequate, Congress had power to vest exclusive jurisdiction in the Board and the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...land along the waterfront on St. George's Island. Main difficulty was that "Ferry Reach'' was a fatiguing 850 ft. from the boat house where visitors ordinarily landed. Last week this difficulty was overcome as Vincent Astor inaugurated his newest railroad, a single track line from dock to home. No toy, its four-ton electrically driven passenger car seats six, hauls a big baggage van. From the Bermuda Railway was borrowed Chief Engineer Kitchen to supervise construction; into the island's collections went $2,000 in duty on materials. On hand for the inauguration was Bermuda...
...dock Prisoner Bernstein had confessed to many technical sins of omission & commission, such as can scarcely be avoided by anyone doing big business through the Fatherland's bewildering network of foreign exchange restrictions. The State had demanded a fine of $1,800,000 and imprisonment for five years. Hence...
...word 'Jew' probably has not been used once during this trial," declared the court proudly. "Herr Bernstein did not stand in the dock as a Jew but simply as a businessman who had broken German...
...Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred to his paper's Washington branch, Reporter Lyman had heard nothing about the impending visit and the rumor presently died. Last week, when the U. S. Liner President Harding docked in New York, city editors were under the impression that the only conceivably newsworthy figures on board were the members of a Chechoslovakian Trade-Treaty Commission. Consequently, there were on hand only the run-of-the-mill ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman, and a Wide World photographer...