Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...116th day of the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history, the Supreme Court upheld the emergency procedure of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act as "a public remedy in times of emergency," gave force to a Taft-Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines, furnaces and mills for 80 days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District...
...emergency procedure of the twelve-year-old Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional. It does not, as the union contended, unconstitutionally require the courts to "legislate" policy on a strike. "The statute does recognize certain rights in the public to have unimpeded for a time production in industries vital to the national health or safety," ruled the court...
...ultimate purpose of the "invidious" nationality quotas, he declared was to perptuate the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic character of the American population. "If there was justification for this act in the xenophobia of 1924, there is no longer such an excuse," he said...
...what groups make up this total, Jaffe said. "Even if the present quota of 150,000 were made up of one or two racial groups, this would be a drop in the bucket for a population of 165,000,000," he stated. Jaffe suggested a new immigration act that has no national quotas, but sets a limit of ten per cent of the total for any one group of immigrants...
...might have used his jaws to better effect in chewing out his mediator in the steel strike, who accomplished nothing; or his President, whose threats of intervention worried only the unions; or his President again, for invoking the Taft-Hartley act, which will do precious little good...