Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight the presidential future books trembled: Nixon clearly stood with McClellan for a sterner labor bill in defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
...Southerner's booby trap. If the Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write a compromise bill of rights, called in moderate Republicans such as California's Tommy Kuchel for help...
...peaceful picketing was a blow against "the cardinal principle of freedom of speech." Kennedy himself, now back in command, came striding down the center aisle to the Senate's well to argue against the amendment's sweeping nature. "I myself would be forced to vote against the bill," he said, "and ask that my name be stricken from it, if this amendment were adopted." McClellan's amendment lost 59-30. Wisely, Kennedy pushed another compromise with lesser limits on picketing. It was adopted...
...Saturday Kennedy felt strong enough to get back to McClellan's bill of rights. Smoothly, California's Kuchel offered a revised bill deleting the Secretary of Labor's injunctive powers, but leaving in such guarantees as freedom from arbitrary dues and assessments, and protection of the individual's right to sue to secure union freedoms. Neither rueful John McClellan nor any other Southerner refused to support the changes. When the vote was taken, only G.O.P. conservatives and Ohio's Democratic Conservative Frank Lausche held out; the amendment passed 77-14. Two-and-a-half hours...
Governor Almond, who had bowed with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...