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...engrossed copy of the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill sent to the President for signing, it was discovered last week that a nodding clerk had substituted an "are" for an "or." Concluding that the phrase still made sense, the Bill's Congressional handlers advised the President against sending it back to Congress for correction, urged him to sign it as was. This week he did, and nominated a seven-man National Coal Commission to administer...
Meantime in Washington's Hotel Mayflower one day last January Mr. & Mrs. Taylor entered the big dining room to find seated directly in their path Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey lunching with John L. Lewis. Mr. Taylor bowed, and after having seated his wife returned to chat pleasantly with the two laborites. To the Mayflower's politically sophisticated lunchers this act itself was a shocker. Greater was the shock when Messrs. Guffey & Lewis, having finished their meal, strolled over to Mr. Taylor's table, Mr. Lewis meeting Mrs. Taylor for the first time. Senator Guffey hurried...
...Having previously killed an anti-Sit-Down rider on the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill (TIME, April 12), passed (75 to 3) a resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
When, after five hours, the Senate recessed for an unhappy weekend, an amazing total of 54 Senators had taken part in the afternoon's debate. Still adamant was Senator Byrnes, having refused to withdraw his amendment in favor of a separate resolution when he heard that Senators Guffey and Neely were planning to amend such a resolution with condemnation of another species of mass lawbreaking: lynching. And of all those who had raised their voices in defense of sit-downers, not one had championed the Sit-Down as admirable or lawful...
When debate resumed this week, Sena tor Byrnes changed his amendment to apply to all Sit-Downs affecting interstate commerce, but many a colleague still objected to having it tacked to the Guffey Bill. Denying assertions that a vote against the amendment would be a tacit endorsement of the Sit-Down. Senator Minton cried: "I'm willing to meet this issue but I am unwilling to have the textile industry compel me to cast a vote that might be construed as the Senators suggest...