Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually the arguments came down to that: was the case actually a labor dispute? And did the Government, as the "sovereign," come under the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia...
Said Judge Goldsborough: "In this case what society, what the sovereign power, was endeavoring to do was hold . . . the labor union from taking the contemplated action which would amount to a public calamity, until there could be a judicial determination of whether it had the right to take such action...
John Lewis, who had challenged that sovereign power by defying it, would have to stand trial for contempt...
...Madura; second, Borneo; third, "The Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would be rated a sovereign power under Queen Wilhelmina...
...power. The name: Communications Workers of America. The power: to clamp a throttling silence on 30,000,000 U.S. telephones with the flip of a switchboard jack. Both will become effective next June, after N.F.T.W.'s autonomous unions ratify the new constitution, formally turn over their sovereign rights to a new national policy board...