Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before he threw open the floor for discussion, "No political controversy, barring slavery, since Andrew Jackson declared war on the Bank of the United States, has struck so deeply into the roots of our political system." Holcombe did not believe that Justice Roberts reversed his stand on the recent Wagner Act and the Minimum Wage Act either because of the strikes, the Roosevelt landslide, or the Court bill, but sincerely believed that his change of mind was due to further study of the questions...
...that Justice Roberts has snatched the Wagner Act from the ignoble grave to which other Constitutional authorities had prematurely consigned it, Congress must consider the criticisms that have been leveled at certain portions of the Act. A reading of the measure will convince most people that some provisions are definitely one sided and so will inevitably prove unworkable when submitted to the test of experience...
...forcing the employer to bargain collectively with union representatives while permitting labor to dissent from any National Labor Board decision by striking, the Wagner Act imposes one sided obligations on the employer. Thus employer hostility to the act is unnecessarily created. Collective bargaining cannot be effective when it is imposed on a reluctant employer in behalf of a labor union for which he lacks respect. Only when the employer bargains sincerely because of his respect for a capably led union will collective bargaining bring results. The sooner Congressmen realize that employer self interest and not government compulsion makes collective bargaining...
...cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down on employers' defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision...
History. Only during the last decade, after engineers helped doctors control artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured. Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs. For this he received a Nobel Prize in 1927. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg is supposed to have caught the idea of malaria therapy from an Odessan named Rozenblum. Yet U. S. slave owners used to send their syphilitics to malarial swamps where, for some then...