Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers...
...Capitol, West Virginia's stripling Senator Rush Dew Holt had led-strangely enough, since it was the United Mine Workers who had helped elect him and John L. Lewis was frowning down from the gallery and cursing him for a traitor- a filibuster against the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill. Spelled by colleagues eager to speak their pieces in the nation's ear for the last time this year, Senator Holt kept the filibuster going through the afternoon and evening, at one time piping passages from Aesop's Fables in his youthful tenor...
...eight Supreme Court decisions touching the New Deal program, the only two favorable to the Administration were on the (1 Guffey Coal Control Act and the Bankhead Act, 2 Wagner Labor Relations Act and the TVA, 3 AAA and NRA, 4 Gold Clause and the TVA, 5 Public Utility Act and the Housing...
...they called a meeting, agreed it would be worth a strike to get the air cleared. Locals in the other plants voted to go along with them. After a fortnight's silence, the company suddenly passed out ballots at all six plants with a warning reference to the Guffey decision (TIME, May 25). "The Supreme Court," read the ballots, "decided that one group of employees cannot dictate to any other workers. . . . Do you wish to strike or do you wish to work?" At Syracuse the ballots also said: "The results of this ballot will determine continued operation...
...Coolidge appointed him in 1928, Judge Vaught has a reputation for fairness: a big, bluff record which includes life-sentencing the kidnappers of Charles Urschel, bluntly telling a local company to pay no attention to the late NRA, restraining the U. S. from collecting coal taxes under the late Guffey Act. Last week he presided at the trial of Lonzo Carl Giles, onetime Federal Relief administrator in Oklahoma, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government by countenancing "phony" bids for the purchase of FERA mules...