Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention has been called to a sentence in TIME magazine's article on Senator Vandenberg and neutrality law revision...
Said Admiral Land, through his Senatorial mouthpiece: If the proposed neutrality bill became law, of 326 U. S. ships (2,150,000 gross tons), 130 (860,000 gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...
...Michigan law requires, Mr. Frankensteen filed five-day notice of intent to call formal strikes in all Chrysler plants. With this club bulging his pocket, he then accepted Mr. Weckler's invitation to negotiate a new contract (the old one expired Sept...
...union Ford Motor Co., still resisting an NLRB order to cease opposition to C. I. O., reinstated 23 discharged unionists, as the Board had ordered-but said it was obeying the law of increasing production rather than the Wagner Act. Recovered from the factional strife which nearly destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause of the Labor pangs in C. I. O.'s belly. Said they: "Since the enactment...