Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to widespread fable, the Taft-Hartley Act was drafted to protect labor as well as to correct some of the abuses unions were permitted under the Wagner act. In one respect, however, the laws makes the same omission in protection as its predecessor: it contains no effective provision to deal with an employer who breaks the law while fighting attempts of a union to organize his factory. Since an unfair practices suit requires at least a year to settle, an obstructionist employer can easily stave off union organization with delays. Even should the union ultimately win its suit against...
Eliot topped Lowell in touch, 42 to 18. Leverett will try to protect its undefeated touch record this afternoon against Winthrop...
...Teacher's Oath, passed in 1935, requires teachers in universities and schools in Massachusetts to swear to defend and protect the constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A fine of up to $1,000 for violation was added...
...Javitt bill would protect those witnesses whom the committees do summon, for accusations based on secret testimony cannot be rebutted, as President Pusey pointed out in his replay to McCarty's charges against Wendell Furry. Under the reform bill no committee member could release any sort of report or statement about the proceedings of closed sessions without majority permission. If such permission is given, the committee must furnish the witness with a stenographic copy of the testimony at the executive session...
...warn Russians that friendship with an American would land them in trouble. On an excursion boat near Leningrad, he met a scholarly looking old man who turned out to be "a real friend, gentle and courtly, interesting and interested." As usual, Stevens had to break off the friendship to protect his Russian friend...