Word: enjoins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, heedful of its labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers...
...Cowardly & Illogical." Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit...
Supreme Court Justice Harold H. Burton presided at the session, which consisted of oral argument of a case testing the right of a Federal Court to enjoin a district attorney from prosecuting under the Taft-Hartley Act a union which bought newspaper space and radio time to endorse a candidate for federal office. The two clubs had previously submitted briefs on the same issue...
...advise and enjoin those who direct the paper in the tomorrows never to advocate any cause for personal profit or preferment. I would wish it always to be 'the tocsin' and devote itself to the policies of equality and justice to the underprivileged. If the paper should at any time be the voice of self-interest or become the spokesman of privilege or selfishness it would be untrue to its history. ... I have never regarded the News & Observer as property, but [as] having an unpurchasable soul...
...Goldsborough tried to restrain Lewis until the question of his right to call off the contract could be settled by the courts. Goldsborough ordered him. not to call the strike. Lewis called the strike anyhow, arguing that the Norris-LaGuardia Act took away the court's authority to enjoin workers in a labor dispute. Obediently his miners, nearly 600,000 of them, walked out. Goldsborough convicted him of contempt and the case went to the Supreme Court...