Word: strengtheners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure intended to strengthen the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively. Nobody except some of the old dealers would stand in the way of such a progressive and forward looking principle today. But the bill goes far beyond any such objective. It prohibits an employer, ranging all the way from the small business man or merchant with two or three employees or clerks up to the industrialist with his large army of workers, from opening his mouth to utter a word that could possibly be construed as "influence" upon the "policies" or "operations" of any labor organization...
...Mistakes like this occur from our law that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty," said Professor Warner. "Under our system there are no means for the police to force a man to testify against himself. We must strengthen the police and prosecution by giving them means of making criminals talk. In England, as soon as a man is arrested, he is brought before a judge, and forced to testify. If he refuses, he is thrown into prison for contempt of court. Some such system here would help to avoid errors...
There at week's end matters rested with both sides hinting broadly that all reprisals might be called off IF each would agree to return to the economic status quo of last summer. Britain, however, was able to strengthen her position with a new commercial treaty with Soviet Russia to take the place of the one canceled last March at the time of the sabotage trial of British electrical engineers in Moscow (TIME, March 27). Waiting brought Britain advantages. Last year the Soviet sold twice as much to Britain as she bought. Under the new treaty Russia must...
There is, to be sure, no contradiction between the aims which Dean Hanford proposes for the College and the aims which President Conant has set for the University. Many of Mr. Hanford's proposals will without question be put into effect. But any broad program to strengthen the hold of the tutorial system is bound to mean an added dram on the University treasury and an added burden on the faculty's most capable teachers. The President has other uses for the money and other plan for the faculty. He has chosen a way calculated to add to the prestige...
...university's governing Corporation listed faculty eligibles, cast about the country for non-Harvard opinion on them, was overwhelmed by praises of Conant. Outsiders say that the Corporation was definitely disturbed at Harvard's waning intellectual prestige, wanted a vigorous, young devotee of scholarship to restore and strengthen...