Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the Press reported that President Roosevelt intended to send Congress a message on "social legislation." At a subsequent conference with newshawks he wondered aloud how such erroneous information could have got abroad, for he had no such intention. Last week, after the Republican National Committee had met in...
The President had evidently decided that now was the time for him to come to the aid of his Party. The Literary Digest poll showed the public ''on the whole" approved of the New Deal about 3-to-2. In the East, Roosevelt popularity was pulling ahead of...
Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers...
Judge Nields had to do some heavy reading. Last June Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir installed a company union, modeled on that of Bethlehem Steel, in the plants of his Weirton Steel Co. at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg, and Weirton, W. Va. Last September the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers (A. F...
Judge Nields had to read a long Government brief arguing that by reason of these events Weirton Steel had violated Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act relative to collective bargaining and should therefore be enjoined to let the Labor Board hold a new election. He also had to read...