Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court filed out from behind their velour curtain on "decision Monday" this week and took their seats with routine solemnity. Chief Justice Fred Vinson looked out across the crowded chamber and announced that routine business would be postponed until after the reading of opinions in "the steel case." At his words, the chamber buzzed with electric anticipation...
...Vinson's right, Justice Hugo Lafayette Black put on his thick-rimmed glasses and picked up a sheaf of papers. In his Alabama half-drawl, he began reading the majority decision. Its conclusion...
...decision: Justices Frankfurter, Douglas, Jackson, Clark and Burton concurred with Black; Chief Justice Vinson, Justices Reed and Minton disagreed, took a position in support of the President...
...coat cracked his gavel in the crowded marble chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. The electric buzzing of voices gave way to a soft shuffling, as lawyers and spectators got to their feet. Out from a break in a heavy red velour curtain came black-robed Chief Justice Fred Vinson, followed by the eight associate Justices. After each had settled into a high-back leather chair, Vinson hunched forward and read from the court calendar: "No. 744, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, et al., versus Charles Sawyer. No. 745, Charles Sawyer versus the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company...
Bind the Man Down. At a nod from Vinson, John Davis strode forward to build his case against Harry Truman. Had the President seized the steel plants under authority of any statute? He had not. He had, in fact, declined to use the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress's remedy for heading off important labor-management disputes. "Having that weapon at hand, any effort on his part to forge a new and different weapon only aggravates the claim of usurpation which we are compelled to make. There was no statutory framework for this seizure. What then...