Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome University's august Aula Magna (Great Hall), eleven spotlights probed the platform where Socialist leaders fretfully shuffled back & forth under a huge wooden banner of a hammer and sickle and book (the Italian Socialist emblem). Delegates, observers and guests, filling the unheated auditorium to capacity, shivered in their overcoats. Pietro Nenni sat snugly at the rear of the platform, carefully concealed from view by a bowl of bright red carnations...
Labor's Magna Carta. Getting down to specific measures, Joe Ball frankly admits that he cannot dot all the i's. The best he can do in some cases is point out reforms. These are high on his list: the need for better federal mediation machinery; the need to discourage industry-wide bargaining (to which "the only answer so far has been Government seizure"); the need to protect individuals and minorities within a union (who are now the victims of "monopolies as vicious as any attempted by the unlamented trusts of a few decades...
...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...
...Magna cum Laude: Ohester Robert Ogden, (Economics...
...Magna cum Laude: Frank William Reeb, (Government...