Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the "broad A sound as in what" [TIME, Feb. 21] is not a broad A but a short U. Judge Wham must expect all TIME readers to pronounce him "Whum" until further notice...
...inquiries further among insurance adjusters, the investigator learned so much about Mr. Womack, a onetime insurance agent, that last week he and an impressive array of his relatives stood trial on an impressive array of counts in the East St. Louis District Court of Federal Judge Fred L. Wham...
...opinion which will probably be appealed, Judge Wham drew a line between the unquestioned right to strike and a conspiracy "to prevent production." Labor, he said, was not liable for damages caused by a strike itself, even if an "employer may have to quit business"; but Labor was responsible for damages inflicted by "violent and other unlawful conduct." This liability was not confined to physical damage but included the use of "unlawful means" to prevent a company "from conducting its business...
Only consolation to be found by labor lawyers in the Wham decision was the possibility that it would demonstrate that no new legislation was needed to make unions financially responsible. The damages assessed recalled the historic Danbury Hatters case, which was fought through the courts for twelve years before it was passed upon by the Supreme Court in 1915. The hatters' union declared a nation-wide boycott on hats of an open-shop Danbury hat manufacturer, the late Dietrich E. Loewe. Hat-Maker Loewe then founded the American Anti-Boycott Association, sued the union, won a judgment...