Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Mediation Board to settle railway labor disputes: 1) William M. Leiserson, Estonian-born economist, who on the day of his appointment resigned as chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to return to his job as Professor of Sociology at Antioch College. 2) James W. Carmalt, longtime legal adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission and now adviser to Railway Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. 3) John Carmody, onetime mediator for the National Labor Board, now chief engineer for Federal Emergency Relief Administration...
...Such legal jargon made the Civil Liberties Protective Association see purple with fury. "This decision has set the clock back 300 years!" stormed Civil Liberties President George...
...confusion, contradiction and total inaction on the part of the Recovery Administration the Administration's order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically amounts to notice that the Government will...
...popular phrase so prettily puts it, not to stick his neck out." Taken by the Tribune as a direct warning to broadcasters to pull in their necks was the announcement by Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount last August: "It is the patriotic, if not the bounden and legal duty, of all licensees . . . to deny their facilities to advertisers who are disposed to defy, ignore or modify the codes established...
...Corps affairs, and recanted points of sworn testimony. General Foulois promptly branded the charges "most unfair and unjust," asked for an open hearing in court. Popular in and out of the service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best met by one contractor; hinted that "Benny" Foulois was being "made the goat" by higher officers responsible for the weakness of the Air Corps. But all Washington knew...