Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dignity as an individual . . . cajoled, coerced, intimidated and on many occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think possible in a free country." Congressmen were resolved to trim down that tyranny. A minority of committeemen protested that the bill would "result in bitter and costly strikes...
...some holes in it; some of the ground rules were vaguely denned. But essentially it accomplished what Labor Chairman Fred Hartley Jr. and his committeemen wanted. It would restore the balance of power in labor dealings to management, which, in the apparent opinion of a majority of U.S. Congressmen, is where it belongs in a system of free enterprise...
...governors of seven states have been heard from, as have businessmen, Congressmen, plain citizens, radio broadcasters, journalists (Wrote Edgar Ansel Mowrer. New York Post columnist and foreign affairs expert: "Never before, in my judgment, has any American magazine printed anything quite as important . . .")-In particular, the clergy has been strongly represented-the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, for example, having requested 1,700 reprints for distribution to Armed Forces chaplains everywhere...
Activity so far had been confined to committee rooms. Under the chairmanship of New Jersey's Fred Hartley Jr., the House labor committee reported out an omnibus bill which would hit organized labor almost as hard as some G.O.P. Congressmen had promised they would before election. Among other things, the House would bar the closed shop and most industry-wide bargaining. It would deny any bargaining rights to unions having Communist officers. It would give injunctive powers to the Government in disputes involving "the public health, safety or interest." It would abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Even...
...successor, RFC elected John D. Goodloe, 38, an ex-newspaperman and lawyer who has been working his way up in RFC since 1932. He has been a director (replacing George Allen) since last January and has had the often hard job of explaining RFC's operations to probing Congressmen...