Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thrust. The Court might have confined itself to the question of contempt, plastered Lewis with the fine and let it go at that. But not this Court. Boldly, Chief Justice Vinson struck out into the jungle country of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The case did raise the question of whether the Act can be applied when the Government is the employer. In other words, can workers under Government authority keep the right to strike? Lewis' miners were technically working for the Government when they struck...
Four justices (Rutledge, Frankfurter, Jackson and Murphy) held that the Act applied in the miners' case as much as in any industrial dispute. Said Murphy: "The whole thrust of the Norris-LaGuardia Act is directed toward the use of ... injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes. . . . This case is one growing out of a labor dispute...
Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I think all the potential Führers are on the other side...
...such "ideal" types as mild-mannered curates. Of the clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have...
...husband Ivan the later years of consecrated work for The Party-years she remembers now with bitterness. Ivan was taken in the purge of Old Bolsheviks in 1937, broken by torture, and later sent to die in an ill-equipped People's Guard Battalion before the German armored thrust at Moscow. She explains to Ferguson how the Old Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what was happening, they stood accused of struggling with him for power, and the very charge...