Word: griffin
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Last week the G.O.P.-Southern Democratic House coalition got behind sterner, identical bills filed by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin-ten short of the 219 needed to win. Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate...
...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
Above the Battle. Just as the President's congressional advisers had expected, thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls swamped the White House and Capitol Hill. Two hours after Ike signed off, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany took to the air to argue that the Landrum-Griffin bill was "a blunderbuss that would inflict grievous harm on all unions.'' And A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, attending a conference of the United Auto Workers and the Machinists' Union, said that the President "has been taken in by the opponents of organized labor." The Landrum-Griffin bill, Reuther...
Stepping down last January after four years as Governor of Georgia, frog-voiced, race-baiting Marvin Griffin left some mighty scuffy footprints on the sands of time. Griffin aides and allies, including his brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand...
...Parks Director Brinson still face a six-count fraud indictment for their original overcharge to the state. But when they will come to trial is uncertain. Georgia's court dockets are getting more and more crowded, as the state wipes out the footprints left by the Marvin Griffin administration...