Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead's 63rd birthday, the Wagner Act's Constitutional "birthday", the President telephoned the Alabaman: "Many happy returns of the day to you, and incidentally, it's a pretty good...
...resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
...silent intake of spectators' breaths all but caused a vacuum in the courtroom. At last the fateful decision was at hand, the five-case test of the disputed Wagner Labor Act. Those who had camped at the Court's portal since dawn in order to get seats, felt rewarded. Government attorneys, who had preferred seats, nudged one another expectantly. Mrs. Hughes, who had presumably had a tip from her husband that this would be a good decision day to attend, sat in the front row of spectators paying very close attention...
...these decisions went against the Wagner Labor Act the political hue & cry against the Court would be raised once more. If the decisions upheld the Act, they would forecast a new era in the labor relations of U. S. industry: henceforth no industry affected by this law could refuse to bargain collectively with its employes, discharge them for joining a union, force a company union upon them, or interfere with their organizing. To Labor, to industry, to politics the outcome was momentous...
...antidote to the extra full measure of Wagner to which Boston has been subjected during the past fortnight, the superlative D'Oyly Carte Company of the Savey theatre, London, is presenting Gilbert and Sullivan operation at the Colonial. The engagement, which opened on Monday evening, in to continue for four weeks, and the repertoire offered includes almost all the works when the famous par collaborated on--a collaboration which resulted in great artistic successes but also in a good deal of friction to the parties involved. After seeing so many worthy but undeniably amateurish Gilbert and Sullivan performances by buxom...