Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuracy of his enemies' assessment of Taft was borne out. In 1947 he pushed through the Taft-Hartley Act. In 1950, running for re-election in Ohio, he administered organized labor one of its most far-reaching political defeats. Union leaders thought they could beat him. In no state campaign had labor ever let loose such a concerted attack, determined as it was to punish the author of the Taft-Hartley Act, which they called the Slave Labor Act. Taft won by a majority almost twice the size of what he himself had predicted. It might have marked...
...said simply: "I'm not a philosopher. These are questions I haven't thought much about." He was not at home in complicated theorizing. He operated from a fixed base of accepted principles and law, used his analytical mind to sift out the facts. The Taft-Hartley Act made no effort to establish new principles of labor relations. Rather, it was a great improvisation, intended to register a shift of public sentiment against the one-sidedness of the Wagner Act. It was not the last word on the subject, and Taft admitted it; he had none...
...campaigns, resigned to win the governorship by 150,000 votes, lost it to Back Bay Republican Robert F. Bradford two years later. Appointed Labor Secretary by Truman before the 1948 election. Fair Dealer Tobin backed union demands in last year's steel dispute, urged revision of the Taft-Hartley...
This attempt to work out a bill that will please or almost please everyone is the chief reason for delay in charting the Administration line on Taft-Hartley changes. The clear prospect this week: there will be no congressional action on the labor law until next year...
...group were New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, Pennsylvania's Samuel K. McConnell Jr., chairman of the House Labor Committee, Ohio's ailing Robert A. Taft and Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin. On their minds: amendments to the Taft-Hartley...