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Word: hartleys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With plenty of good humor, but with knees high and elbows out, Senator Robert Taft waded into the labor-law fight. The unions had made repeal of his Taft-Hartley Act a personal and political fight. Harry Truman had promised to kill it. In a Senate committee hearing room (the arena where he is most effective) Taft fought back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Knees High, Elbows Out | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

From the Taft-Hartley and Wagner Acts it would keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dream Bill | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin put the bill in his tan briefcase one evening last week and went up to Capitol Hill to deliver it in person. Of the Taft-Hartley Act provisions it would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dream Bill | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Communist oath for union officials; the requirement that unions be liable for most of the labor practices that Taft-Hartley had defined as "unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dream Bill | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much if a few amendments were tacked back on. The non-Communist oath, for example, might be put back. And Harry Truman, who had found the Taft-Hartley injunction a handy weapon to use in four national-emergency strikes, might like to have it around again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dream Bill | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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