Word: taft-hartley
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...Washington, portly Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
...five minutes and produced only fragments of news. Reporters got headlines out of it only by accenting the negative: the President didn't think that John L. Lewis and his three-day-a-week miners had created a national emergency and he had no intention of invoking the Taft-Hartley Act against them. Both the President and the reporters seemed to be in a rush to get their chores done and their clothes changed for a more entertaining affair-the Democratic National Committee's annual whing-ding for Democratic Congressmen and Senators...
Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...stumped for new housing, for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, for more social security, for the Marshall Plan, for civil rights. When Republican Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks refused to debate the issues with him, in the fashion of the old Lincoln-Douglas debates,* he set up an empty chair and debated with that. The voters liked what they saw: a big, 6 ft. 2½ in., 235-pounder with simplicity and integrity sticking out all over him, a scholar who looked equally at home in the coal fields of Little Egypt and the tenements of South Chicago. "That...
...possible snag to the orchestra's further progress was the Taft-Hartley Act provision forbidding the A.F.M. to administer its royalty fund itself. But the new fund administrator, Philadelphia Lawyer Samuel Rosenbaum, gave the Old Timers the go-ahead...