Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House: ¶ Passed the Copeland-Lea Bill extending the scope of the Pure Food & Drug Act to include cosmetics, therapeutic devices, several drugs which now escape Federal regulation; sent it to conference to be adjusted with the stronger Senate bill passed last year. ¶ Approved the conference report on the $350,000,000 Federal Aid Road Bill; sent to to the White House...
Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. NLRB had properly ordered reinstatement of five Strikers, although it had not submitted an interim report to the company before reaching its final findings...
...John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins: "The C. I. 0. cannot sanction such an enterprise...
...morning the news came out, the President held one of his regular press conferences. Vexed, he proceeded to read the press a sermon. The report (said Mr. Roosevelt) was essentially cockeyed. There had been a deal of misinformation about Britain's famed Trade Disputes Act and how it works. So, out of the kindness of his heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before...
Last week the committee declared Drs. Walsh and Sweezy's views and labor activity had had nothing to do with their dismissal, was "happy to report its opinion that there was no departure whatsoever from Harvard's tradition of tolerance and of untrammeled scientific inquiry." But the committee said the dismissals were a mistake, held President Conant partly to blame for a "misunderstanding." Dr. Conant had asked the economics department to recommend two of its seven instructors for promotion. The department, unaware that this meant the dismissal of the other five, chose two more experienced members, but considered...