Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart of the matter seemed to be a bit of contract fine print that club owners like to call the cornerstone of big-time baseball: the so-called "reserve clause" that binds a player to his club for his baseball life-or until the club chooses to trade, sell or sack him. Purpose: to prevent a few rich clubs from hiring all the talent-as they well might if each ballplayer were always free to sell his services in the highest market. Cornerstone or not, two out of three judges decided that the reserve clause looked like peonage. They ordered...
...pinball machines were pretty dull. The balls simply rolled back to the player; accumulating free games was a matter of luck. But the new machines incorporate a pair of mechanical devices which have taken pinball out of the shoot-and-pray classification and given the player a show for his money. One of these is the "live" bumper, essentially an electromagnet surrounding a spring; when touched by a ball it promptly squats down and sends the ball hurtling around the board. The other is the flipper, a little plastic arm controlled by buttons on the flanks of the machine, with...
...undergoing the emotional metamorphosis his part demands. In his own austere way, March personifies the awful tragedy of a man whose love for his wife is so great that he will even kill her to alleviate her suffering. This film is convincing proof that the most hopelessly overworked subject matter can become worthwhile entertainment with proper treatment...
...basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover the multitudinous complexities of the labor system, but in these two matters action is a matter of public policy...
...Taft-Hartley Law. The ban on jurisdictional strikes is justified if only on the grounds that nobody gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing to do with a dispute in another plant or industry. One thing is clear: if Congress presumes to handle the secondary boycott...