Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freight rate reduction at this time, that is absolutely impracticable and impossible. Impracticable because railroads are not earning the 5 1-2 percent rate on their property values as prescribed by law. Impossible, because the Interstate Commerce Commission has not the legal power to order a rate-reduction until the net revenue of the railroads is much in excess of the 5 1-2 percent on their valuation, which the railroads have yet failed to earn. The Transportation Act makes it clearly mandatory upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe such rates as will pay all operating expenses, including property...
...railroads are standing on a solid moral and legal rock when they ask that the provisions of the Transportation Act (which calls upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to so co-relate wages and rates as to yield 5 1-2 percent net on property values) should be carried out, and all the clamoring of greedy shipping interests for reduced freight rates and of purblind labor leaders for maintaining high war wages, could in my opinion have little effect on the situation. Conditions under which railroad operation would yield less than 5 1-2 percent net on property values, would...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Professor David Gordon Lyon '01. Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson '12, and Mr. Herbert Brutus Ehrmann '12, who made the Legal Aid investigations for the city of Cleveland, will be the speakers at the opening meeting of the Menorah Society this evening at 7.30, at Phillips Brooks House...
...United States the recognition by law of "joint control" goes back several years. In England, for example, the Miners' Minimum Wage Act of 1921 gave statutory powers in the matter of fixing wages to joint boards of miners and mine owners. In Germany the first step toward the legal recognition of the workers' right to participate in management dates from 1891 when an act was passed amending the Industrial Code...
...able than most men to control his time. Therefore he finds a place on the local committees, in clubs, churches and other organizations. He is chosen to town office or is sent to the legislature or to Congress, or he is called to some executive position. The door from legal into political life always swings easily open, and hence in state or nation the lawyer is more often found in high office than men from any other walk in life...