Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught up in a sense of the occasion and the historic background of the Senate's temporary quarters, Majority Leader Scott Lucas reminded his colleagues: "Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Hayne in those days decided some very important issues ... I would not be surprised if history repeated itself." Just what this fine-sounding remark really meant was hard to say. Perhaps Lucas was only trying to suggest that since there were important issues still to be decided, Congressmen might possibly rise to the stature of Clay, Calhoun, Webster & Co. in meeting them. If that is what he meant, his optimism...
...Robert A. Taft, dressed in cool seersucker, grinned from ear to ear. The Senate had had a tumultuous week, but always in command of the situation was the tall man with the flat voice and the triumphant smile. Before the week was over, Taft had forced Majority Leader Scott Lucas to throw up his hands in despair and had the Administration in complete rout. The issue in the Senate was the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman had promised to get repealed...
...notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after...
...Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...bill before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...