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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Thunder from the Past | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

It was like old times. John Llewellyn Lewis, hair still flying in the draft of that old invisible vacuum cleaner, stomped majestically into the solidly packed House Caucus Room, took his place at the microphone, glowered briefly at his audience, and unleashed a torrent of colorful abuse against all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Thunder from the Past | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, May 19--The nomination of Lewis L. Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce squeaked through the Senate Commerce Committee today on a 9-8 vote. WASHINGTON, May 19--Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy today suspended his plans to resign and said he may not leave the Eisenhower Cabinet...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Foreign Ministers of Big Three Score Soviet Plans for Germany; Nuclear Weapons Talks Continue | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

"That Means a Liar." The trial of proud, brainy Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, is the most glaring case in a campaign of delay and harassment that Senate Democrats are carrying on against President Eisenhower's appointees (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Fortnight ago Ike pointed out that 47 major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

At week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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