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Armed Services Chairmen Tydings (in the Senate) and Vinson (in the House) moved with even greater dispatch. Before the week was out they had slammed through their committees and presented to the Congress two major military bills: one to take the 2,006,000 ceiling off military manpower, the other (immediately passed by the Senate) to extend all enlistments for a period of one year beyond present expiration dates...
...Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke out like B. F. Vinson on his 150 Georgia acres. "I might not like some of the Government control," said he, "but I'd ruther have it than be turned wild aloose...
...decisions, both written by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, declared that the varieties of segregation practiced by the University of Texas Law School and the University of Oklahoma graduate school of education violated the "equal protection" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment...
Writing the majority opinion upholding the Taft-Hartley clause which requires labor leaders to sign non-Communist oaths, Chief Justice Vinson declared in effect that mere Communist membership can be construed as a threat to the U.S. and thus dealt with. "Force may and must be met with force. [The oath] is designed to protect the public not against what Communists and others identified therein advocate or believe, but against what Congress has concluded they have done and are likely to do again...
...Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley provision requiring non-Communist oaths from labor leaders-a clause that was once labor's bitterest pill, and has since proved almost as easy to take as an aspirin. The justices had a hard time making up their collective mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed...