Word: suited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit after suit, till it has become a commonplace, the National Labor Relations Board has been 1) challenged in the courts, 2) upheld by the Supreme Court. In the last fortnight of its term, the Supreme Court upheld NLRB in no less than six decisions, holding that...
...fall, after The Book is toted, a tenant's crop may not be worth enough to pay for what he owes. If cotton is selling at io/ a Ib. or better, he may receive one or two hundred dollars. But he has an immense yearning for a store suit, a cotton dress for his wife, a few pretties for his children, perhaps a second-hand Chevrolet or a splendid, ancient Studebaker. So, either way he goes on living by The Book...
Immutable privilege of dictators, within their borders, is that of changing past and current history to suit themselves. Last week in Rome, Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
...young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years out of Harvard Law but already a potent trustbuster. It was he and James Lawrence Fly who broke the Sugar Institute in 1933. Big as was that case, Lawyer Rice last week had a bigger one, probably the most important anti-trust suit the U. S. Government has ever brought. Its express object: to break up $236,000,000 Alcoa into several separate entities...
...Washington when the Government accused old Andrew Mellon of tax evasion, his chief company of monopoly. Because his. R. B. Mellon's and Chairman Davis' families own 51% of Alcoa's stock, Andrew Mellon, though dead now, was listed as a defendant last week. Actual suit in this anti-trust case was brought by Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME, May 3, 1937). Alcoa fought it with an injunction by a Pittsburgh judge on the ground that the monopoly accusation had been settled by the 1912 consent decree. It took a U. S. Supreme Court...