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...specifically proclaimed the employer's power to discharge men for union activity.- But by 1935 Congress had put teeth in Section 7A of the old National Industrial Recovery Act, brought out the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, and U. S. Labor had what it proudly hailed as a Magna Charta...
Sweden has had a free press for 174 years, guaranteed by one of the most liberal constitutions in the world. The Free Press Statute of 1812, Magna Charta of Swedish journalism, is one of the four basic laws of Sweden. It gives every citizen the right to publish what he pleases, makes censorship of any kind illegal...
...those parchments time set a greater seal. Keystone of English liberty, the Magna Charta became the symbol of government by law, of justice that may not be sold or delayed, of security for free men. All guarantees that have followed it, say historians, are but footnotes and commentary...
...plump, spectacled Englishman, whose lineage stretches back to those nobles, ceremoniously gave the Magna Charta (for the duration of World War II) into the keeping of a slight, balding U. S. poet. Said Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States, to Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress...
...these immortal words ... we see the nucleus of most of our liberties. . . . Samuel Adams appealed to 'the rights of Magna Charta.. . .' It was in their name that your ancestors threw the tea into Boston Harbor. ... It was in their name . . . that they drew up that Constitution which Mr. Gladstone described as 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' And it was in their name that Abraham Lincoln fought a four years' war to loosen the fetters from the slaves and to preserve...