Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers in the law...
...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...
...April, for the first time in 795 years, independence in law as well as in fact came...
With the recent publication of a 390-page report on religious freedom, written by a six-man "Dissenter Law Committee" after five years of hearings and deliberations, Sweden has now made a move in the direction of greater religious freedom. The committee's recommendations, due for careful study before introduction into Parliament next spring, contain six major points...
...would once again be granted. ¶Teachers of all Christian denominations would be allowed to teach in all school levels (non-Lutherans are now barred from teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half of their present national church tax (under the present law, most Swedes must contribute about 1% of their income to help support the state church). ¶Nonmembers of the state church, currently barred from all cabinet posts, would be eligible for any cabinet posts except those dealing with education and religion...