Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision which upheld Judge Harold Medina, the constitutionality of the Smith Act,* and the conviction, under the act, of the Communist Party's eleven top officials (TIME, Oct. 24). If the Supreme Court justices follow where Medina and Hand have led -and their recent decision upholding the Taft-Hartley non-Communist oath indicates they will-the eleven will be fined $10,000 each and carted off to serve up to five years...
...Died. Hartley Clyde Myrick, 65, onetime sourdough who went north at 13, played the piano in Gold Rush saloons, was identified up & down the Yukon with "the kid that handles the music-box"** in Robert W. Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew; of cancer; in Seattle...
...Page One. Aimer Stilwell Monroney (he legally changed his name to Mike when he entered politics) had earned a reputation as a sound moderate who helped put through the first real reform of Congress' rusty machinery in 25 years. Generally Fair-Dealing, he had voted for Taft-Hartley, but opposed the Brannan Plan. Though he comes from a state where oil wells are drilled even on the Capitol grounds, he voted against an oilmen's bill to raise oil price controls...
...required for paper work necessary to launch a major conflict. . . Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold...
...hundred printers, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers had shown up for work. Although their A.F.L. and independent unions were not on strike, only a handful crossed the orderly picket line. The rest refused to cross, for fear of their "physical safety"-an explanation apparently designed to skirt the Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts and to avoid violating their own union contracts...