Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, Tom Connally of Texas quietly withdrew his plant-seizure, anti-strike bill, but in the Naval Affairs Committee of the House there was a final lashing around before the Vinson bill (to wipe out overtime wages for hours under 48 a week, freeze existing labor-management relations, limit war profits) was tabled by a hairline 13-12 vote. The debate was bound to go on, but possibility of immediate action...
Stockholders grew curious, too. One of them sued the directors and officers of Brewster, charging that the Mirandas dominated Brewster and got "excessive commissions." Congressman Engel asked the Vinson Naval Affairs Committee to investigate. But the Navy, also impatient, moved in first...
...Intelligent businessmen, many of whom are making more money than they intended or even hoped, usually welcome this invitation to renegotiate the contract at a lower price. If they don't, the board asks, in effect: How would you like to explain your profits to the Vinson or the Truman committee? Negotiation proceeds from there...
...Jack & Heinz of Cleveland, whose gaudy profits and bonus payments were recently put on exhibition by the Vinson committee, promised a cut of $9,250,000 on 1942 business, coughed up $600,000 cash...
...Howard Smith, Carl Vinson, Thurman Arnold, and Ralph Bard, the anti-labor stampede would seem to revolve around the issue against the 40-hour week and the closed shop. Actually, it is much more than that. It is an extremely clever and back-handed attempt to kill Philip Murray's labor-management plan. These men who have been waging an "undeclared war" against labor on the floor of Congress and in the pages of the daily press are like scheming murderers who start a row in one part of town to cover up their real crime in another part...