Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach of legal injunctions. The National Labor Relations Act insured labor the right to organize. The NLRA in itself was not pernicious. But various interpretations of it plunged boards and courts into a swamp of contradictions. Both acts disarmed management, a fact which labor leaders were able to exploit to the full...
...rapid switch of "facts" attested to by each side after the Supreme Court decision of June 10, 1916, indicates that the contest is not one between Right and Wrong, but merely a struggle between two greedy factions to exploit the law to the limit of their respective advantages. In order to exploit the Supreme Court's decision and at the same time avoid the pitfall. "The law cares not for small things," labor lawyers upped their sworn estimate of walking time from two to fifteen minutes...
...Well-Digger's Daughter" is distinguished chiefly for its frank and humane treatment of the problem of illegitimacy, a treatment that is in marked contrast to the lecherous curiosity with which most Boston dailies (the writer knows of only one exception) exploit the errors and failings of private individuals for a reading public that seems to prefer its pornography in a journalistic form. With typically Gallie sense of proportion and balance, the French-made film concerns itself with the plight of the pretty young daughter of a well-digger who finds herself with child by the handsome...
...time at all, of course, the Communists developed the reverse side of the medal, that the Marines were only in China to oppress the people--in spite of the fact that they were helping repatriate Japs by the thousand. In such a situation the moderates had no chance to exploit the advantage that mediation by a third party presented. Truces were signed, properly witnessed, passed on to troops in the field, and backed by teams of all three interested parties--only to be broken time and again by the trigger-happy commanders to whom a truce was for the other...
...Hemisphere supplied 90% of the Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more production means more American capital in Saudi Arabia and more work and good wages for his impoverished Arab subjects.* Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help...