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...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, succeeding Harold Wilson; 49; handsome, suave lawyer; Dulwich College (in London), London School of Economics, University of Geneva; started electioneering for the Labor Party at 16; called to the bar in 1925; senior law lecturer, Liverpool University, 1927-34; served on government commissions (coal-mining inquiry, air-raid defense, etc.); chief British prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials; elected to Parliament, 1945; Attorney General...
...national emergency declared by President Truman, which is "a phony"; ¶The defense program, wage & price stabilization, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Marshall Plan...
...House he has been a moderate Administration Democrat, voting with the party leaders on repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, against them on civil rights. But except for a few remarks about the tobacco industry, he has strictly obeyed the seen-but-not-heard injunction directed at all freshman Congressmen. In his debut as a Senator, he plans to follow the same course. "I haven't tried to be anything more as yet than a good listener," explained Tom Underwood, "and I can't think of any place where that quality will seem more distinguished than...
...workers who maintained that Wisconsin had no right to require compulsory arbitration as the final step in a utility labor dispute. Chief Justice Fred Vinson and five other justices agreed with them. The justices' reasoning: compulsory arbitration destroys the right to strike, which is guaranteed by the Taft-Hartley Act (frequently denounced by labor as the "slave-labor" act). In a conflict between a federal and a state act, the federal act must be "supreme...
...fact is, the President does retreat. While still bugling all the notes of the Fair Deal, he retreated, for example, from the legislative front line on FEPC, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Whether he retreats or not in the 82nd Congress will not make much difference. If he doesn't, he will be immobilized...