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...history, last week made what might be her last speech as Secretary of Labor. Her theme was old; but, coming from her, it was new. Echoing one of Tom Dewey's prime campaign arguments, she suggested that the Government's dozen-odd labor agencies (NWLB, NLRB, NRLP, FEPC, etc.) be put back under the Labor Department...
...months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated...
Fortnight ago, a jury in San Francisco's Superior Court awarded Washer $125,000 as a result of the bank's statement, approximately $2,000 a word. The bank promptly appealed. Last week Washer planned to ask the NLRB once more to give him his old bank job back...
...this cleavage was by no means absolute. The 1943-44 Court had agreed on most major matters: upholding the NLRB, picketing and price control; sustaining new and higher taxes, protecting civil liberties. The differences were over minor matters, often legalistic, and generally representing differences in legal approach. Broadly speaking, the Black school would usually uphold Congress, as representing the new will of the people; while the Frankfurter school would hold fast to previous law and hoary precedent. Not since May 1936 had the Supreme Court overturned a law of Congress...
...good measure, Senators McCarran and Revercomb also attacked the actions of WLB, NLRB, Frances Perkins' Conciliation Service, and even old Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, who has been lying low for months. All, in the view of the two Senators, had exceeded their authority...