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...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
...Taft had won his fight to keep an omnibus bill. Despite wolf cries of "veto" from Wayne Morse and Minority Leader Alben Barkley, he also put over the Ball amendment. But before the Senate approved it (60 to 28), it deleted the word "interfere," making the provision less restrictive than similar rules for employers...
...Vogue assembled the twelve most photographed models of the last decade, called the resultant group portrait "an Omnibus of Beauty" (see cut). As current replacements of the Ziegfeld and Gibson girls, said Vogue, "these twelve share a look of non-adolescence...
...main subject for tonight's discussion, which will be open to the public, is the "omnibus" labor bill, now up for consideration before the Senate...
Action taken up to now by the HLU in its campaign against labor curbs like those proposed by the omnibus bill includes a Hootenanny, held last month, at which George Markham of the C.I.O. Fur Workers Union spoke, and the distribution of a C.I.O. pamphlet throughout the College...