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...House defeated by a resounding 214 (162 Republicans, 52 Democrats) to 171 (21 Republicans, 150 Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "A vote of confidence in ... those who are dedicated to returning American agriculture to a sound basis...
...single term in Washington and struck out for the Governor's job. He lost by 157 votes in 1946, came back to win in 1948 and again in 1950. The following year, Governor Adams swung behind Dwight Eisenhower, although the two had never met, and turned a strong Taft tide in New Hampshire to help Ike win the presidential primary in 1952. Adams' knowing way with politics and his efficiency as Ike's floor manager at the Chicago convention brought him close to the man who was going to be his boss. Ike liked his snappy, almost...
...dead telephone. Some resented the fact that he had pursued the President's dictum that the White House should work with Congress through the leadership; they felt that as a result, Adams had locked them out of the White House. Then there were the old-line Taft-men. "That sonofabitch," said one bitterly. "He was one of those who went down to Texas and planted that flag-'Thou Shalt Not Steal'-on Taft in the delegate vote fight in 1952. Now that he's got the same thing coming his way, nobody's going...
...U.A.W. hustled the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the Taft-Hartley law gave the National Labor Relations Board sole jurisdiction, that chaos would result if local courts granted relief to non-strikers caught up in union battles with management...
...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...