Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join or not to join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented the A. F. of L. from using some of its "strongest" arguments, would have given some employers a legal pretext for interfering with the organization of their employes. Just 21 votes were mustered for the Tydings amendment, so it went to defeat. No amendment of any kind was made to the Wagner Bill from the Senate floor. Just four Democrats and eight Republicans voted against the bill when...
...President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
...mounted to 75,000. Agitator Harry Bridges, the tough little Australian who promoted the San Francisco general walkout, was busy agitating longshoremen's strikes. Closer to home, Opposition legislators were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache of all for Governor Merriam was the problem of raising funds to meet the $347,000,000 California budget, swollen by mounting relief costs...
...martyr to severe attacks of asthma ever since his exile in Siberia 48 years ago. Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess the reason, and three weeks ago when Poland adopted a new Constitution putting in legal form the system under which the country has run for years, and giving Puppet President Ignatz Moscicki the powers of a real dictator (TIME, May 6), all the world accepted the official explanation: Marshal Pilsudski's dictatorship was now nine years old. He wanted to see if the system...
...rhapsodied before he died one sunrise last month, "The skies of Cuba blush." Last week one Jose Costiello Fuentes, an ordinary bandit who had killed a lieutenant from ambush, faced in manful silence four rifle barrels, died without a word. To frivolous murder Cubans are accustomed, but the legal and methodical execution of a criminal was last week profoundly shocking and disconcerting to all Cuba. Announced the Secretary of the Interior last week, "Senora O'Halloran fought bravely. She should be brave enough to face a firing squad...