Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was good for the country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...
...Administration's labor bill. Five Cabinet members at one time or other sat in on the sessions. When they were done, A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were called in to have a look at it. After all, Harry Truman had made a campaign promise to labor-to kill the Taft-Hartley law, which the unions had branded the "slave labor law." The union men looked over Truman's new bill, and didn't like the provision for federal injunctions, in strikes affecting the national welfare. Harry Truman ordered it out. The union leaders went away happy, with what...
Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin put the bill in his tan briefcase one evening last week and went up to Capitol Hill to deliver it in person. Of the Taft-Hartley Act provisions it would kill...
...Communist oath for union officials; the requirement that unions be liable for most of the labor practices that Taft-Hartley had defined as "unfair...
President Truman's plea for federal aid to the housing industry will get a "liberalized version" of the 1947 Taft- Fliender-Wagner Bill from the 81st Congress, G. Holmes Perkins '26, professor of Regional Planning, told the CRIMSON yesterday...