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First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
...unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers of all are the migrant workers. Thousands of them were stranded without pay in what is normally their most profitable season...
...rest of the Magnificent Seven includes Robert E. Lee, 55, an ex-FBI man; James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them...
...intent" or "objective," in the sense that for many persons some of the time, and for some persons most of the time, driving is a form of aggression. It is a socially approved, or at least provided, outlet for violent behavior. Some years ago, the British novelist L.P. Hartley envisioned a future world in which public automobile accidents were staged much as the ancient Romans once held gladiatorial games. Certainly the constant broadcasting of the "holiday death toll" over festivals such as Christmas has had something of this quality...
...Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...