Word: tobin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What, Taft demanded, did Tobin think? Did Tobin think when he helped draft the bill that he was or was not giving the President injunctive power in emergency strikes...
...lawyer," said Tobin...
...participated in drafting the bill," Taft pointed out. "What did you intend your lawyers to draw?" Tobin, who had actually directed the drawing of the bill, still tried to duck. Taft kept after him until, cornered, Tobin said: "We did not draft a bill that had to do with emergency disputes ... I am not an attorney and did not know what the answer would...
Secretary Tobin ventured: "Congress cannot circumscribe the constitutional powers of the President. Does that answer your question?" Said Morse: "I don't think it even comes near...
Either Secretary Tobin had not done his homework on the law in the case or he did not understand what he had studied, but he tried again. No President, he said, would ever permit the economy of the U.S. "to be brought to its knees in a great national emergency." That didn't have to mean an injunction, he said. "He [the President] might handle it differently." But Tobin could not think what a "different" method might...