Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, Arthur Vandenberg was largely responsible. And Congress had demonstrated resolution in some of its handling of domestic affairs. The Republicans had begun the session by refusing to seat Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, Mississippi's evangelist of racial discrimination. In passing and then re-passing the Taft-Hartley labor bill over the President's veto, Republicans and Democrats both (but mainly Republicans) had ignored the clamor from labor and also from the extreme right. The 80th had re-established the sovereignty of the legislative process...
...week with the best contract in their history. His 75,000 anthracite miners had revamped their own unexpired contract to bring it into line. Not only had Lewis won more than twice the wage gains of other labor leaders, he had also punched a yawning hole in the Taft-Hartley...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, strolling to a political meeting beside Britain's River Crouch, saw a little girl fall from a jetty. He ripped off his Savile Row jacket and plunged in after her. But a dinghy got there first. Sir Hartley rose from the waters, a study in frustration and soggy drawers. He addressed the meeting in borrowed pants and an old sweater, to which hecklers were especially attentive...
Papa conceded that the Taft-Hartley Act would force him to leave the union's life-&-death powers out of future contracts. But he did not seem concerned. Kansas' rawboned Representative Wint Smith, who had heard back home that city folk were smart people, summed up the committee's opinion of New York's food merchants. "They talk about hicks," he said. "This seems to be a fertile field...