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Railway Labor. Though it failed to rule on the National Labor Relations Act, the Court did uphold, unanimously, the model from which it was drawn-the Railway Labor Act passed in 1926 and amended in 1934. Like the Wagner Act, it compels collective bargaining, empowers a majority of employers to elect their sole bargaining agency, provides machinery for mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably...
...triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French. Mark my words, Allah may forgive a Moslem for not praying, but Allah never forgives a Moslem who does not strive to free his brethren from non-Moslem domination...
...early 18th Century famed British Admiral Edward Vernon made it his whim to wear a cloak of heavy French grosgrain silk. The Admiral's tars called him "Old Grogram," an English corruption of grosgrain current for a century before. As a temperance measure Old Grogram introduced the rule that rum must never be served straight to enlisted men but mixed with water and this mixture was soon being called "Grogram . . . Grog . . . grog...
...rule, general dental work is not done at the Clinic, but rather turned over to an approved list of graduates from Harvard's Dental School who are practicing in Cambridge or Boston. But certain needy students are taken care of by the Clinic. The main argument against an enlargement of activity, with resultant relief of the congestion, has been that these needy men would suffer by it. This hardly seems necessary...
...Committee on Law & Order which he had summoned to consider Michigan's labor troubles, he declared: "When the authority of governmental agencies is continually flouted or defied, confidence in government is impaired, and outraged citizens prepare to take the law into their own hands; democratic rule is endangered, and the way is prepared for the rule of mobs or dictators; worst of all, labor movements and organizations are discredited, faith in liberal democratic government is permanently impaired, and social progress is impeded...