Investigation of Seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate Seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co. House of Representatives, 78th Cong., 2d Sess., Pursuant to H. Res. 521 ... May 22, 23, 24, 25, and June 6, 7, 8, 1944U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 661 pages |
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Page 308 - The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
Page 133 - Now THEREFORE, By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy...
Page 312 - to define and punish offenses against the law of nations...
Page 33 - ... that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 119 - ... any plant, mine, or facility equipped for the manufacture, production, or mining of any articles or materials which may be required for the war effort or which may be useful in connection therewith.
Page 545 - Fully recognizing the legality of collective action on the part of employees in order to safeguard their proper interests, we said that Congress was not required to ignore this right but could safeguard it. Congress could seek to make appropriate collective action of employees an instrument of peace rather than of strife.
Page 564 - Association; in labor, to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the railroad brotherhoods.
Page 38 - Applaud us when we run; console us when we fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on — for God's sake let us pass on.
Page 221 - If there are any questions about the several items which the members of this committee would like to ask, I will be glad to answer them to the best of my ability.
Page 208 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.