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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrupulous conduct of the death-sentence Rosenberg spy trial (TIME, April 16, 1951) withstood all appeals, held that the police had "reasonable grounds" for believing that "a crime might have been committed"; that "the circumstances were such that an immediate stoppage and investigation was rendered absolutely necessary." Those questioned, said the court, were merely getting an opportunity to convince police that no crime had been committed. They did so and were released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Apalachin Conspiracy | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Over the telephone, the editor of the bimonthly United Mine Workers Journal heard the unmistakable rumbling voice of U.M.W. President John Llewellyn Lewis: "When are you going to lock up the page forms of the next edition?" The editor said the following Monday. Replied John L.: "Well, I may have something for you. I'll let you know." Hours before presstime last week, John L. Lewis sent over a letter that gave the Journal-and most U.S. newspapers-a headline: JOHN L. LEWIS RESIGNS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fighter's Retreat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Wages. Over his 40 years as U.M.W. head, he battled with presidents, congresses, courts, coal owners, and colleagues. Often his battles obscured the victory. Said Lewis to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, under whose benevolent New Deal he founded the C.I.O. and deployed the sit-down strike: "Nobody can call John L. Lewis a liar and least of all Franklin Delano Roosevelt.'' He denounced F.D.R.'s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fighter's Retreat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...letter of resignation to his miners, John L. Lewis, two months short of 80, summed up his life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful to your interests." Lewis' successor as U.M.W. president for the final year of his four-year term: Mild, humorous Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72, a miner since 1900, onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39), who has lived and worked faithfully for 40 years in John L.'s massive shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fighter's Retreat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men and women with babies shuffled over, and some men pushed forward and gently laid their hands on the new thing. The Rev. Mr. Daniels took off his hat, bowed his head and said: "Father, thank thee for this wonderful blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Gift | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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