Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magna Charta was a document wistfully referred to in Britain last week. One by one cherished civil liberties were falling by the wayside. Last week Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson introduced into the House of Commons a bill which proposed putting an end to the most sacrosanct right of all -trial by jury. The bill provided for special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would...
Grover Whalen wanted Curley to do an English country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave...
...brief moment, Labor beheld the dawn of a millennial day. But the cream of the country's lawyers confidently advised employers to pay no heed to NLRB rulings. When the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act, tories and liberals alike were dazed. Labor's Magna Charta would work. Antiunionism was powerless...
...this most recent chapter of Labor's history, political moralists could find much to marvel at, little to approve. Labor's Magna Charta was obviously in peril; equally obviously, the peril had arisen in part from zealotry in the Government and greed in the house of Labor itself...
...Said an official spokesman: "The stealthy trip into a U. S. harbor does not speak well for British confidence in victory. First the British took gold over there, then apparently other treasures, and forgot to bring back certain historical documents [i e., one of four copies of Magna Charta, deposited in the Library of Congress]. Now they must pay $1,000 a day docking charges. . . . What is the Queen Elizabeth anyway. It is not even finished. In fact, it is half a skeleton. Now, the Bremen-that was something...