Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...
Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...week's end, the Labor Committee was ready with the bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Like the filibuster battle, the measure reflected the Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill...
...right side of the crowded hearing room last week sat representatives of U.S. industry; on the left, representatives of the nation's unions. Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
Into the Opposition. Some Congressmen were quick to say they would not buy labor's dream. Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender said that the President's bill would leave the nation defenseless against John L. Lewis. Faithful old New Dealer Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate labor committee, would try to hustle the bill on to the floor but there it would run into a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much...