Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week NLRB, which has no power to enforce its rulings, took the first step toward a Supreme Court decision, asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to enforce its order against the hiring halls run by Joe Curran's National Maritime Union on the Great Leaks...
...handed Joe Curran, skipper of the C.I.O.'s big National Maritime Union, had won almost every tussle in his long struggle against Communist control. But it was like fighting a hydra: Joe had to wrestle the Communists and fellow travelers one by one, and every time he pinned one down, another bobbed up. Another trouble was that the Commies were so strongly entrenched that they usually got themselves re-elected to the key union jobs...
Across the country, threatening growls arose from other unions. The C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers fumed at General Electric and Westinghouse. The U.A.W. sparred with General Motors and Ford. Harry Bridges' longshoremen and Joe Curran's N.M.U. argued loudly with shippers. All wanted more money...
...another of his eight defense attorneys objected to everything in sight. They were repeatedly overruled by whitehaired Judge Edward M. Curran. Judge Curran refused to disqualify himself when the defense pointed out that he had been the U.S. attorney in the trial of previous contempt-of-Congress cases. He refused to move the trial when the defense contended that a jury of federal employees would be "intimidated" by the committee. He refused to hear Producer Dore Schary as a character witness, ruling that Lawson's character and political beliefs were not at issue. He refused to see The Jolson...
...instructing the jury, Judge Curran said: "If you can come to the conclusion from Lawson's answer to the committee whether or not he ever was a member of the Communist Party, then you must return a verdict of not guilty. If you can't, then you must return a verdict of guilty." The jury did, in two hours and 15 minutes...