Word: maddened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great percentage of those present have served in the ranks, and they might be able to assure Mr. Madden that failure to organize was often due to the worker's inability to feel the distressing conditions attributed...
Only discordant note in this symphony of reaction was played by Chairman Joseph Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board. Indeed, some of the business congressmen gruffed for publication that Laborman Madden had abused their hospitality, that he had not been invited "to come here and make a union speech...
...Laborman Madden bluntly declared that industrial management "can and does effectively destroy the right of self-organization among workmen." When writing the Wagner Act another Congress had been well aware that in fighting labor, business did not hesitate to use intimidation, coercion, discharges, stool-pigeons, company unions. Moreover, Laborman Madden could cite a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to organize written by no less eminent a Republican than the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who once opined from the bench: "[Labor unions] were organized out of the necessities of the situation. A single employe was helpless in dealing...
Referring to the question of responsible labor leadership, Mr. Madden added: "It is remarkable that there are so few hot heads and zealots as there are. Would you expect a conservative person, considerate of the welfare of his family and himself, to accept a position of leadership in a labor union with all of its obvious and very real perils...
...Balboa last week, Franklin Roosevelt for the second time in his Administration set foot in the Panama Canal Zone. Refreshed by a fortnight at sea, the President proceeded to turn on his most charmful smile. Taken out twelve miles through the jungle to see the new $13,000,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River, completed since Mr. Roosevelt's westward passage across the Isthmus last year and calculated to supplement the Canal's water supply by 22 billion cubic feet, he graciously remarked: "When you compare the two, you wouldn't believe that Boulder...