Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from being more than a shadowy clue to the Court's forthcoming decision on the Wagner Act. Well hedged by its qualifying clause was Mr. Justice Stone's remark: "The peaceable settlement of labor controversies, especially where they may seriously impair the ability of an interstate rail carrier to perform its service to the public, is a matter of public concern...
...cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn by Prosecutor Herlands and his witnesses, the seven defendants mostly whined that they had been...
After ten weeks of negotiation, undertaken at President Roosevelt's request, the Association of American Railroads and the 21 standard brotherhoods and rail unions finally agreed on a way to take care of superannuated employes. Most important feature of this agreement between management and labor was that the railroads promised to drop their lawsuits so that when the third railroad pension law goes through Congress it will stick on the statute books. The roads were willing to do so because the new plan provides that 1) some $50,000,000 of taxes which are due under the second...
...divorces it may soon have stiff competition: last week the Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest...
...campaigned for years to get the $10 British visa fee down, was its recent revision-to $2 after April 1. The French visa, ordinarily $2.33, is reduced to 47? for the Paris Exposition Season this spring and summer, with 50% reduction to Exposition visitors of all French rail fares. Italy offers similar inducements and the recent devaluation of French francs, Belgian francs, Dutch gulden, Swiss francs and Italian lire make these ideal post-Coronation countries, cheaper today by some 20% to 40% than they were in 1936 and better bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise...