Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artillery. Republican Congressmen listened to the President in frigid silence. In Harry Truman's 43 minutes on the Speaker's rostrum, G.O.P. applause spattered forth only twice: when he promised to enforce the Taft-Hartley Act, when he urged "strong armed forces." After it was over, one newsman noted: "They had to cut a hole in the ice to get him out of the Chamber...
...made here but only by sacrificing the long-run interest of the nation to the desire of the majority of Congress to carry a "good record" into the November elections. The remaining 2.7 percent provides for conservation and price supports for agricultural products, education, enforcement of the Taft-Hartley Act, strike mediation, and housing...
...Unless we behave like raving lunatics, there will not be another war," announced Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross. "But there is always the possibility that men may be lunatics...
...remembering the great strike of 1946, unions approached management in the latter half of 1947 with a sweet reasonableness that was further sugared by the Taft-Hartley Act. Management was reasonable also; it granted wage boosts, then raised prices to absorb them...
Neither printers nor publishers wanted a strike, but Denver's local 49 of the International Typographical Union did want to keep the closed shop. And the Post, Rocky Mountain News and Catholic Register could not agree to that without violating the Taft-Hartley...