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Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...reason for the so-called "situs" bill's failure to clear Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee is that it would chiefly benefit the construction trades unions, which have been notoriously reluctant to admit Negroes. In addition, though the bill has more than enough votes for passage, House Democrats have decided to leave it in committee until the Senate acts. Reason: Democrats from conservative districts feel that they lost votes unnecessarily by supporting the 14 (b) repeal bill only to have the Senate filibuster it to death...
Participation of the Harvard track and field team in the second annual Heptagonal Games to be held May 9, 1936 was announced at the same time. The competing colleges will be Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. The situs of these games for 1936 will be determined later...
However, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral in 1926, on viewing the photograph of the Fogg Museum roundell felt that this did not represent the scene first mentioned, as the St. Thomas windows now in situs at the Cathedral do not represent scenes connected with St. Thomas life, but with the miracles performed by him posthumously...
...must be held that the Pennsylvania statute, insofar as it attempts to tax the transfer of tangible personalty having an actual situs in other states, contravenes the due process of law clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is invalid...