Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that passed both houses last week (see below) would have been a far weaker measure, all partisans admitted, but for the President's well-timed radio-and-television intervention. But his greatest battle was for fiscal stability, and his stand against free-handed spending last week withstood the nearly irresistible force...
...tired Senators. Democrat John Kennedy of Massachusetts and conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona showed the strain of 2½ grueling weeks of battle, generally with each other, inside the 14-man Senate-House conference committee assigned to work out differences between Senate and House versions of the Labor Reform Act of 1959. A reporter asked Kennedy how labor unions would feel about the final bill just agreed on, and Goldwater playfully answered for him by shoving an imaginary labor knife into Kennedy's back. Kennedy laughed, turned serious. "Compromises are never happy experiences," he said. "I think...
...same as a unanimous vote: only oddball Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon and oddball Republican William Langer of North Dakota opposed. The House voted next day, 352-52, sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President Truman's veto...
Lost in the headline controversy were the new labor law's substantial contributions to the U.S. criminal code. Sentence by sentence, the Bill of Rights and supporting sections of the Labor Reform Act create a new arsenal of weapons against the union bullyboys and embezzlers. Some key sections...
...drinks and chats, or to ride with the President in his plane. To Capitol Hill came many a warm letter, thanking legislators for help, that was signed "D.E." Arizona's conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who alone in the Senate had voted against the relatively mild labor-reform bill sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat John Kennedy, was tickled pink when Ike confided: "If I'd been in the Senate, I'd have voted with you." Last month, when labor-reform legislation was at bitter issue in the House, Ike went on radio and television to urge a strong...