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...illnesses of many political leaders, Dr. Silverman believes, fit his theories: Lyndon Johnson's last heart attack, Robert Taft's terminal cancer, Joseph McCarthy's fatal liver ailment and Richard Nixon's phlebitis, all seem to him to have been triggered by the intense emotional stress of a traumatic event, though not enough is known about the "target organs" involved...
Collective Bargaining. Until last year, the Taft-Hartley Act prevented private companies from joining with labor unions to offer legal insurance. Congress has now amended the law so that labor and management can both contribute to legal-insurance funds, as they have long been permitted to do with pension and health plans. As a result, Hugh Duffy, former chief counsel of the House Special Subcommittee on Labor, predicts: "Prepaid legal services will now be in the mainstream of collective bargaining." So far, some 25 labor unions have persuaded employers to help set up and contribute to legal insurance funds. Some...
...first six months in the Senate, Morse made more speeches than all the other freshmen combined. He started to take stands without regard I to party position or leadership preference. He backed President Truman when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, when he seized the nation's steel mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching...
...though he had no real interest in the vice presidency: "I can't spend my years sitting up there calling balls and strikes in the Senate." Warren was always the political independent. Even in 1952, when Eisenhower needed only nine more votes to beat Robert A. Taft for the G.O.P. nomination, Warren held California's 70 votes to the last minute...
Upon his graduation from Law School, Kane joined the New York firm of Cadwalder, Wickersham and Taft, where he remained a partner until his death...