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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor's blessing; it would be the only labor bill this session; it would rectify at least some of the fraudulent labor-union practices exposed by the McClellan investigating committee. On these grounds an ample bloc of Democrats and liberal Republicans banded under Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to push the bill through. But they reckoned without California's William Fife Knowland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory in Defeat | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Lyndon Johnson worked fast and furiously to head off Big Bill. He got Arkansas' able Lawyer John McClellan to warn against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory in Defeat | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...shouted. 'Why, you dumb so-and-so, you don't even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers football club and a pro wrestler before turning to coaching. He assisted at Wake Forest and North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Dave Brigham, the fourth Crimson hurler of the afternoon, picked up his fifth win of the season easily by setting down B.C. in their last at bat. Preceding him on the mound for the varsity were starter Herb Scheiner, Steve Rhoades and Byron Johnson. Of these, only Johnson was effective...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Baseball Team Beats B.C. With 3-Run Rally in Ninth | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...Byron Johnson came on in relief only to be greeted by a scorching line drive down the third base line which Bergantino speared. In the fourth inning, Erickson had blasted a home run into the deepest reaches of left field...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Late-Inning Rally Enables Huskies To Nip Favored Varsity Nine, 8-6 | 5/1/1958 | See Source »

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