Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year since 1933 the four railway brotherhoods (trainmen, conductors, engineers, firemen) have got 70-car limit bills introduced into Congress. Spearhead of the drive is amiable but persistent George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, whose favorite thesis it is that railroads would have less trouble bearing the financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote...
...railroad managements, more alarmed this year than ever, retort that the 70-car limit, like the proposed "excess crew" law, is a bald-faced, work-making scheme, and that talk of increased danger on long trains is twaddle. The Transportation Association of America declares that since 1922 the U. S. roads have spent $8,000,000,000 modernizing their equipment and rights of way. much of it expressly for handling long trains with safety. Train lengths have increased in recent years but employe casualties have decreased. In 1923, when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered...
Like California, many U. S. States permit a paying passenger to recover for auto injuries caused by a driver's negligence, but limit non-paying passenger or guest recoveries to cases where the driver was grossly negligent or drunk. In both Walker v. Adamson and McCann v. Hoffman et al, the injured passengers had shared or were expected to share in the expenses of the trip. But, said California's Supreme Court, where the parties are ''engaged on a business venture for their mutual advantage," then sharing expenses makes a guest a paying passenger; whereas, when...
...police had no authority to limit the number of pickets. The police argument that the marchers intended to storm Republic's plant was "groundless...
...insinuates that his decisions might be swayed by the financial connections of his rich brother Paul. A fine speaker, he set a House record when he was a Tennessee Congressman (1919-33), having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight years and being reversed only 18 times. Once, while a lynch mob was besieging a jail, he tucked his night shirt into his trousers, hurried to the scene, announced: "This court...