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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama Democrat Carl Elliott. A step beyond the Shelley bill, it imposed some restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts, in addition to requiring financial disclosure. Closest to the Senate's Kennedy-Erwin Labor bill (TIME, May 4), it was supported by the Democratic House leadership under Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...accounting, bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott and picketing power. Last fortnight the House Labor and Education Committee reported the milder-than-that Elliott bill (TIME. Aug. 3), which was favored by Speaker Sam Rayburn, opposed by a powerful coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign the bill, they would see to it that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision he disliked. "We are in full agreement that the independence...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...