Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
...could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...House machinery, which had been turning out bills like sausages, had come to a screeching pause. Its legislative teeth had ground into a major Harry Truman campaign promise: to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. On the floor, Truman Democrats were locked over the issue with a stubborn and derisive coalition of Republicans and the Southern colleagues of Edward Hebert. Labor agents and lobbyists - close to 400 of them - packed the gal lery, patrolled the corridors. So did as many lobbyists of industry...
...most controversial measures in Harry Truman's program were still to be met. After the recess, the House would tackle the Administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. Administration strategists figured that a short visit with the home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty...
...British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining had been done by the Yugoslavs, Shawcross argued that Albania was responsible for what happened...