Word: rifkind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February. With its five labor members dissenting, the Rifkind commission submits to President Kennedy a report calling for sweeping changes in work rules...
February-November. Chaired by Lawyer Simon Rifkind, the commission chugs along, amassing a record of 15,306 pages, plus 20,319 pages of exhibits...
July. The railroads serve notice that they will put the Rifkind-commission recommendations into effect within 30 days. The unions sue in federal court to derail the plan...
...river on a scow to halt work on a dam that was being constructed to divert water to Los Angeles. Three times in the 1930s, Arizona unsuccessfully brought suit against California in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1952 Arizona sued again. The Supreme Court assigned Simon H. Rifkind, New York lawyer and former federal district judge, to assemble facts and shape a recommendation. Rifkind held a marathon trial in 1956-58, gathered testimony from 340 witnesses, accumulated a transcript of 26,242 pages, and eventually, in early 1961, submitted to the Supreme Court a 433-page report...
Last week, having taken another two years to puzzle over Rifkind's tome, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that largely affirmed his conclusions. In essence, the court upheld Arizona's claims and knocked down California...