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...Railway Labor. Though it failed to rule on the National Labor Relations Act, the Court did uphold, unanimously, the model from which it was drawn-the Railway Labor Act passed in 1926 and amended in 1934. Like the Wagner Act, it compels collective bargaining, empowers a majority of employers to elect their sole bargaining agency, provides machinery for mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably...
Alighting from an ordinary railway carriage, the King of the Belgians drove straight to his Embassy in London. There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Opposition Leader Major Clement Attlee, a few such fascinating British parliamentary figures as Winston Churchill, plus a British Foreign Office contingent: Mr. Eden, Lord Cranborne, Mr. Orme Garton Sargent, etc. etc. After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the evening drew aside and got down to cases with the British expert on the issues in question, Mr. Orme Sargent...
Immediate cause of French-Italian friction over Ethiopia today, and it probably explains why Paris is indulging in such newsy official leaks, is the quarrel of the two countries over who owns the 15% of the stock in Ethiopia's only railway which Haile Selassie claims is owned by his "Ethiopian Government." Il Duce claims this stock for Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere...
That the French Cabinet of Premier Blum took most seriously last week a warning by its Secret Service that the Italians may simply seize the railway if they cannot get stock control, was said in Paris to be shown by. the fact that experienced French General Victor Denain was sent rushing to Djibouti...
...acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that the hotel business was no longer what it had been anyway, replaced his father's palatial edifice with groups of snug cottages...