Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that as it may, the event was legitimately historic. More than any other man, Motorman Ford personifies to millions the triumph of the rugged virtues of the American Way. He had consistently and successfully resisted NRA. He is currently doing battle with the National Labor Relations Board and C. I. O. And for the romantic touch dear to the reading American, this was to be his first meeting with the President since the World War days when Henry Ford manufactured submarine chasers for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt...
...Connor two years ago was promising to kick publicly from the Capitol to the White House. Last week, the Reorganization fight over, Franklin Roosevelt invited Mr. O'Connor to the White House to discuss something else entirely: the Wages-&-Hours Bill which, reported by the Labor Committee last fortnight, needed only a special ruling by the Rules Committee, of which Mr. O'Connor is chairman, to bring it to the floor for a vote...
...floor this session were effectively demolished when five Southern Democrats and three Republicans voted against the six other members of the committee not to give the bill a special rule. Only remaining possibility that Wages-&-Hours would get to a vote this session appeared to be that Labor Committee Chairman Mary T. Norton, who last autumn got 217 of her colleagues to sign a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules Committee, would be able to do so again. Last week her hopes of doing so were raised by a note from Franklin Roosevelt. Excerpt: "I have no personal...
Dean Landis revealed that the Law School hopes also to experiment with joint seminars using college professors in addition to the regular law faculty. Labor law is considered such a field--where one can profit from having a seminar conducted jointly by a law professor and a labor economist. But the Dean stressed that such seminars must rest on a background of legal knowledge. In this connection he thought that some of the material which is introduced in other law schools in the first year should come later. Constitutional law, for example, is given at some schools in the first...
...first time in its history, Harvard yesterday submitted its labor difficulties to government regulation as University officials conferred with A.F. of L. and inside union delegates at a formal hearing before the State Labor Relations Commission...