Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress passed the Clayton Act in 1914, it thought it had emancipated Organized Labor. But Congress was mistaken. The Federal courts virtually nullified the Clayton Act in so far as it was supposed to protect trade-unionism from the anti-trust law. Strikes were still broken by Federal injunctions charging interstate conspiracies and monopolies. Labor leaders were still jailed without hearings for contempt. The "yellow-dog" contract spread and throve. Bitterly disappointed, union labor demanded that Congress do its job over again, enact fool-proof legislation through which hostile employers could not weave their way to the Federal courts...
...relations counsel whom the committee interviewed were Edward Bernays, promoter of the celebration of Thomas Edison's eightieth birthday, and Ivy Lee, counsel for John D. Rockefeller, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Charles A. Lindbergh. The committee also is interested in the counter-publicity organizations which newspapers have formed to protect their advertising space against the competition of artificial news items. Such a society is the American Newspaper Publishing Association that sends its members regular bulletins on the latest publicity stunts and stories and their sources. This association also helps protect the public against accepting as news material what is carefully...
Through this period of 37 years, spanned by Alexander's maturity, his life took course invariably close to the leading events in the Fall of the Russian Empire. At the last, when Nicholas II could no longer protect his own mother, Alexander took care of this old lady, the Dowater Empress Maria Feodorovna, who was also his mother-in-law. Favored by circumstances, he eventually got her and his own family (wife, seven children) safely out of Soviet Russia...
Before the House Patents Committee, of which he is chairman, he urged that a bill be drafted which "should do some-thing to protect producers and authors against malicious dramatic critics." Just what should be done, Dr. Sirovich was not yet prepared to say except to suggest that theatre reviewers take examinations like doctors and lawyers. He deplored the fact that "only ten of the 90 theatres in New York City are open...
...During the latter part of January . . . there was a large increase in the short account which unquestionably affected the price of securities and brought discouragement to the country as a whole. I again expressed [my] views to the managers of the Exchange that they should take adequate measures to protect investors from artificial depression of the price of securities for speculative profit." ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate $1,000,000 for Federal participation in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. ¶The President appointed James H. Douglas Jr., 33, Princetonian ('20) and partner in Field, Glore...