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Gradually the arguments came down to that: was the case actually a labor dispute? And did the Government, as the "sovereign," come under the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia...
...mines since May 21), he had sent his miners out on strike. Judge Goldsborough had tried to restrain him from doing just that, but he had done it anyhow. So Goldsborough had charged him with contempt of court. Now Padway was trying to prove that, because of the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act, Goldsborough had no right to issue the restraining order, therefore Goldsborough could not hold Lewis to have been in contempt. In short, said Padway, the court had acted outside its jurisdiction...
...militia and the police, to enjoin labor from making any offensive move. The practice became so notorious that Congress tried to limit it in 1914 with the Clayton act. But the judges were reluctant to give up their power. In 1932 Congress tried again with the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction...
Nine out of ten nations speaking in U.N.'s Economic and Financial Committee approved LaGuardia's plan rather than Acheson's. Naturally, Russia was one of the nine. "Food," cried Andrei Gromyko, must never be used by any nation "as a means of reaping political or other advantages." The U.S., he suggested, must tighten its belt...
...teeth of the State Department denial that under the new relief plan food would be distributed on the basis of political favor, LaGuardia snorted that the plan would work "like Tammany used to in New York." If LaGuardia was right, the U.S. might make a lot more enemies by withholding food than it had ever made friends by giving...