Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and one of the ablest and thorniest figures in U.S. public life, as Secretary of Commerce. At that time...
Most of Strauss's troubles were caused by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, senior Senate member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and a longtime Strauss foe, who filled page after page of the hearing record with charges of extraordinary bitterness. But Lewis Strauss...
With his confirmation moving to the Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators'...
Speaking without notes, Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of...
Yet the legislation and legislators he belabored had no desire to change labor's hard-won basic rights. Today's miner, at $24.25 per diem, could hardly be called downtrodden. (Nor could John L. Lewis, still the $50,000-per-year U.M.W. president and a power in the...