Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...committee, continued to forget Economy, gobble 1940 pork. Items: $25,000,000 for some 50 flood-control projects (upping the War Department's total for civil functions $70,000.000 above those voted by the House); a $231,000,950 authorization for future flood-control projects (the House had voted only...
...Received from Mary Norton's Labor Committee four compromise Wagner Act amendments: 1) to increase NLRB from three to five members, depriving Chairman J. Warren Madden and Member Edwin S. Smith of majority control; 2) to require NLRB to certify craft unions where a majority of affected workers so desire (thus pleasing A. F. of L., displeasing C. I. 0.); 3) to write into law the present NLRB practice which allows employers to petition for Board elections to settle rows between opposing unions; 4) to leave bargaining contracts in force for at least a year after they are signed...
...From the start he was on the scramble. Out of Michigan Law School in 1905, he went west, there heard the fabulous tales of attorneys' fees in Butte, Mont., where F. Augustus Heinze, copper baron, and Amalgamated Copper Co. (the "Standard Oil crowd") were at war for control of "the richest hill on earth." But by the time young Wheeler settled in Butte the fight was over and the fees had fled. He became a law clerk, then hung out his own shingle: in a couple of years he had a profitable practice-mostly personal injury cases against...
...talkers"--the real teachers are the authors) there is debate now on the technique of the seminar. One school claims that the seminars should have an end toward which the seminar-leader should guide the course of the discussion. Another group holds that it is impossible to control the direction of the discussion, and that the discussion itself, taking off from the work of the week, is the thing, regardless of what is agreed on or proved...
Last week the Federal grand jury accused B. & L. and Carl Zeiss of Germany of having entered into a secret agreement in violation of the anti-trust laws. Under this agreement, the Government charged, the American company is powerless to sell range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to any foreign nation without consent of the German firm. Although the indictment did not say so, it was plain any foreign nation meant France and Great Britain...