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...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...
...Knowland not only has stern ideas about labor, he is also running for governor of California on a police-the-unions platform. With little prior warning to Democrats or the Administration, Knowland prepared to tack onto the measure a 14-amendment "labor bill of rights" that would, among other provisions, allow the recall of union officers upon a 15% membership petition, and postpone strikes when 15% objected...
...abandoned the established principle that states should pay 50% on primary and secondary highways, provided instead that they should only pay 33¼%, and that the Federal Treasury should advance that. The Commerce Department had already leaked the word that the President would veto. But Senate G.O.P. Leader William Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon warned that the bill was the best they could hope to get out of Congress this year, pointed out that the objectionable features would expire in one year. Eisenhower, trying to be reasonable about reasonableness, signed the bill into law, but added: "I would oppose...
Thus fortified, Knowland rose on the Senate floor to move for a fortnight's postponement. Immediately. Straw Boss Mansfield took the floor, moved to table (i.e., kill) Knowland's motion, thereupon brought on a vote. Mike Mansfield's motion lost 41-36 (39 Republicans, plus Virginia's Harry Byrd and Ohio's Frank Lausche. voting against it), with Lyndon Johnson and twelve other sorely needed Democrats absent...
Easy Holdup. Once the Democratic counterattack had been blunted, Republicans opened a cover-fire for Knowland's motion. New Jersey's Clifford Case argued that the Fulbright bill really would provide little new employment in depressed communities and could easily be held up. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen pointed out that immediate Senate action was inconsequential since the House had not even taken up the bill. Colorado's Gordon Allott sniffed that a billion dollars was not to be lightly allocated in the course of one afternoon. Recounting noses, Knowland decided to bring his motion...