Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour and labor administrators than the U. S. Supreme Court exercises over their national counterparts. When admiring Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. proposed Mr. Smith for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, many a Republican cheered. Al Smith smiled...
...French Labor Boss is portly Léon Jouhaux whose General Confederation of Labor boasts 5,000,000 followers. It is a trade union setup separate from the Socialist or Communist parties who eagerly look to it for votes. Last week M. Jouhaux, visiting in the U. S., announced that so long as "repeal" of the 40-hour law is excluded and its "principle" maintained, French Labor will not attempt to bar modifications...
...scandal of 1937 was that Nazi Labor Camps for boys were generally built close to the camps for girls, with a resulting high incidence of pregnancy. This summer, camps for the different sexes were separated, frequently by several miles. From Munich, however, accounts came last week of a new Labor Service scandal: at a rally in Nymphenburg Park appeared buxom, sun-bronzed Nazi wenches from the camps, engaging in athletic contests with Apollos from the boys' camps, both wearing nothing but G-strings. Photographers were barred by the police...
...this motley united front were basted in two months ago when the Los Angeles Bar Association charged the Times with contempt of court, citing editorials on court decisions published after the verdict but before the passing of sentence or other disposition. Two of the five editorials cited dealt with labor cases. One hailed the conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit as an attempt...
Before portly Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson,-* known for his many labor injunctions, Times attorneys argued that no ordinary judge could have been unduly swayed, that the Times was exercising its constitutional right of free speech, that if comment were prohibited until every legal move were exhausted, what about the Mooney case-still going strong after more than 20 years...