Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NLRB. Last week, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel and NLRB collided in a test of State v. expanding U. S. sovereignty. In paternalized Newton, where C. I. 6. employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign...
...There are those," said President Vanderbilt, "who still dream of their abolition. Such dreams are in vain . . . the administrative tribunals are here and here to stay, because they serve, or can be made to serve, useful purposes. So 'is the automobile here to stay. But the law requires that the automobile be operated by a competent and experienced driver. It is equipped with brakes as well as with a motor...
Before adjourning, the A. B. A. received from its committee on administrative law a searching critique of administrative agencies, summarizing what lawyers think about alphabetical administration as of 1938. This report said that administrative justice now suffers from the following tendencies: ¶ To decide without a hearing, or without hearing one of the parties. ¶ To decide on the basis of matters or on evidence not before the tribunal. ¶ To make decisions on the basis of preformed opinions and prejudices. ¶ To act rather than decide. ¶ To disregard jurisdictional limits. ¶ To do what will...
...face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium and heroin openly at cut rates in paper packets selling for as little as 5? Chinese (1?). This is against the law but the peddlers go about pistol-on-hip, while Chinese policemen have been deprived of firearms by the Japanese...
...Because the most important part, the "administrative statute," describing how and by whom the law was to be enforced, was not published. The statute as published merely gave general promises of: 1) recognition and protection of nationality according to the subjects' mother tongue; 2) the principle of proportioning the allotment of State jobs, legislative representation and the expenditure of State funds to each nationality according to its numbers; 3) self-administration of the educational system by the nationalities...