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...changing the church's stance. "He is a deeply spiritual person, not bureaucratic," says McMurrin. "He has suffered through this problem for 30 years." What if Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much too conservative to have acted as Kimball did in lifting the barrier for blacks...
...came to our lunch of eight people two days after the March 18 Minnesota primary of 1952; and he was an Eisenhower none of us had ever known: pink-cheeked as always, but bubbling, expansive, joyful. The Minnesota primary, just over, had been contested by both Taft and Stassen, Minnesota's favorite son. And Eisenhower, not listed on the ballot, on a write-in vote, had come in second to Stassen with 37.2% of the total to Stassen's 44.4% on the regular ballot! (Ike's one-time chief, Douglas MacArthur, it should be noted, won only...
Negotiators for the U.M.W. and coal operators initialed the new contract only eight days after the Carter Administration had obtained a temporary restraining order under the Taft-Hartley Act to get the striking miners back to work. As expected, nearly all of the miners ignored the order and stayed home. Of the 900 union mines closed by the strike, only a handful reopened. The Administration actually made little effort to enforce the order. Explained a Justice Department official: "We're trying not to rock the boat." Behind the scenes, however, mediators from the Department of Labor were pressuring operators...
...three months, and making no obvious overture to the miners except threatening to cut off their food stamps--the only way many miners made it through one of the harshest winters the coalfields had ever known--Carter stumbled to action only ten days ago. His order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA, perhaps more than anything else the injunction strengthened the resolve of the membership to stay out until...
...practice Taft-Hartley has been neither as unworkable nor unfair as its opponents feared. Before last week's action, it had been invoked 34 times, and in all but five instances injunctions were issued. In five cases, the injunction prevented strikes, 14 disputes were settled during the cooling-off period, four disputes continued past the 80 days but without further work stoppages, and nine times strikes continued after the cooling-off period before a settlement was reached. According to Labor Department officials, only the United Mine Workers have ever defied Taft-Hartley injunctions. In 1948 a federal judge fined...