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...every state but Utah. This was the only Western state in which the Republicans gained strength, attributable to very poor Democratic organization and the increased popularity of the GOP among the Mor-mons, who comprise two-thirds of Utah's population. Eisenhower's appointment and apparent approval of Ezra Taft Benson, a high official of the Mormon Church, as Secretary of Agriculture and of Ivy Baker Priest as Treasurer has greatly increased the power of the Republican party in Utah...
...honest efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders became racketeers and some racketeers became labor leaders, using their vast economic powers against management, unionism, and society itself...
...told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church should not abandon it. By 1943 enrollment had dropped from...
Knight swung his weight behind F.D.R. six months before Pearl Harbor, supported the Marshall Plan "with misgivings." A Taft supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...
...LABOR RULING by Supreme Court says that unions can be charged with unfair labor practices against their own employees, are subject to Taft-Hartley rules like any employer. By 5-4 vote, court overturned earlier NLRB decision, ordered board to hear charges that Teamsters attempted to force out some of their office help because they joined A.F.L.-C.I.O. Office Employes union...