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...merger itself in 1955. Two years later, he was a prime mover in the expulsion of the Teamsters from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. And in 1959 he was labor's legal strategist during a no-holds-barred Steelworkers' strike that lasted 116 days. When the Government invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to stop the strike for a cooling-off period, Goldberg fought the case to the Supreme Court-where he lost, even though the Justices concurred in public praise of his legal performance. The strike left Goldberg with a suspected gastric ulcer (an exploratory operation found nothing...
...deal was Harry B. Helmsley, chief of the Manhattan broker-management firm of Helmsley-Spear. Wien and Helmsley have been allies ever since, have parlayed their original venture into a $600 million real estate empire that includes New York's plush Plaza hotel and the more plebian Taft, Cleveland's Leader Building and the Palm Beach Towers. From their handsomely appointed offices in New York's skyscraper Lincoln Building, both Wien and Helmsley have been staring out at the Empire State for years. Said Helmsley last week: "I think we have always wanted the Empire State...
Learned Hand majored in philosophy, studied under Santayana. Josiah Royce and William James, and graduated summa cum laude before moving on to law school. As a young lawyer in an Albany firm, he prospered, but he longed to sit on the other side of the bar. President William Howard Taft spotted him in 1909, named him as a federal district judge when he was only 37. In 1924. Calvin Coolidge elevated Hand to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals-and "C.A." swiftly became one of the most esteemed courts in the land...
...dislike of "compulsory arbitration" that led Congressman John F. Kennedy to vote against the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 was still plainly visible last week in President Kennedy. As the fortnight-old maritime strike began closing down oil refineries in Texas and threatening residents of Puerto Rico and Hawaii with a diet of bananas and pineapples, the President's "fact-finding" board, which he appointed to determine whether the strike menaced the nation's health and safety, spent most of its time trying to revive negotiations between the shipowners and the seamen...
...become effective, the deal would require the assent of three smaller maritime unions and at week's end it seemed likely that at least one of them would reject the terms-a move that would force the President to decide whether to demand an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against the seamen...