Word: laguardias
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...Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens...
...m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal public works, went through the observation car's glass door, rump first. No one was hurt...
...reading marathon complete, Judge Nields decided that 1) the affidavits were contradictory in matters of fact; 2) the briefs brought into dispute grave questions of law; 3) since the Norris-LaGuardia act prohibited the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes without the appearance of witnesses in open court, the Government could not have the injunction it sought against Weirton Steel. Declared Judge Nields: "The case illustrates perfectly the propriety of the procedure prescribed by Congress. . . . Not only is there a conflict of material facts but there are serious and intricate questions of law involved, particularly the question...
...Norris-LaGuardia act, passed in 1932 by Labor's friends in Congress, was primarily designed to prevent employers from obtaining injunctions against strikers on flimsy one-sided evidence. The Weirton case was the first famed use of the new law which, according to Judge Nields, could be worked backward against Labor just as well as forward against employers. Not since the courts turned the original meaning of the Clayton Act inside out had Labor suffered such a judicial reverse...
...side of the cruiser Indianapolis docked at a Manhattan pier early one morning last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review of the U. S. Fleet...