Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some compromise between the two-and if there were compromises, how far they should go either way. On no other piece of legislation was Harry Truman staking so much of his political prestige. Beaten in the Senate on his civil rights program, he wanted desperately to win his labor bill...
...Truman legislation was wrapped up in the Lesinski bill, named after the House Labor Committee's tactless chairman, John Lesinski, a labor Congressman from Michigan since 1933. The Lesinski bill would 1) repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, 2) reinstate the Wagner Act with a few slightly stiffening changes. One of the changes was a wispy device for handling national emergency strikes by setting up presidential boards of inquiry and requiring a 30-day "cooling-off period...
...moment the bill was opened to amendments from the floor, Georgia's John Stephens Wood was on his feet. He offered an "amendment" which was actually an entire bill. Congressman Wood's proposal would, in effect, re-enact the Taft-Hartley Act. The fight promptly became: Lesinski bill v. Wood bill...
...Republicans' Joe Martin stepped across the aisle and whispered to Marcantonio. Vito got to his feet and demanded teller vote on his measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
Latinos who had looked to the arms bill to solve their problems now knew that the program proposed to put guns in the hands of signers of the North Atlantic pact, as well as five other strategic countries outside the Hemisphere. Awareness that the U.S. could not arm the whole world at the same time did not soften the blow. It only aggravated the soreness already caused by U.S. preoccupation with other areas as evidenced by EGA. One attache blurted out: "We Latin Americans have been getting the leftovers ever since the end of the war. Now it seems that...