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...Labor Party, led by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, angrily denounced the bill and compared it to America's Taft-Hartley Act. Said Wilson in a speech to Parliament: "We do not believe that we have anything very much to learn from the U.S. in industrial relations matters. Yet we are being asked to vote for a bill which almost exclusively conveys into our law irrelevant and alien provisions from the United States." Nevertheless, the bill was approved by a 44-vote margin-14 more than the Tory majority...
...Keeffe's future husband, Alfred Stieglitz. O'Keeffe was beautiful, then as now, and Stieglitz's pictures of her over their long years together form the greatest love poem in the history of photography. But painters in the "291" circle, like Marsden Hartley and John Marin, found it hard to believe that somebody who did the cooking might also be a serious painter...
...club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard Scammon. The suburbs have become increasingly heterogeneous with the influx of blue-collar workers who now have middle-class incomes and attitudes. As Scammon puts it: "Workers now aren't concerned about Taft-Hartley; they're concerned about crabgrass." Along with crabgrass, ironically, come many of the problems that the new white suburbanites left the center cities to escape: higher property taxes, overcrowded schools, inadequate transportation-and racial unrest, triggered by the presence of blacks who have also fled to the suburbs...
Speaking for the court, Justice William Brennan held that the 1962 decision was in error and "subsequent events have undermined its continuing validity." Moreover, Congress's enactment of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act put a new burden on the courts to cool labor disputes by upholding arbitration and similar techniques...
...Cabinet or subCabinet level has left. The last Cabinet official to leave in protest and say why was onetime Labor Secretary Martin Durkin; in 1953, after less than nine months in office, he resigned because President Eisenhower refused to support his proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley...