Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspended animation was last week brought one decisive step closer to solution. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, deputed by the President to formulate a compromise on the question of enlarging the Supreme Court (TIME, June 14), last week made his choice and trotted it out before the Senate for a showdown. The bill he chose was modeled after one originally sponsored by Senators Hatch of New Mexico and Logan of Kentucky. Its chief terms as compared to those of the President's original proposal...
...second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...
...that a movement got underway, led by General Motors and a few of the steel independents, to form a "united front" of big industry against the C. I. O. drive. Attending one of the "united front" meetings and being told that the time had come for a labor-capital showdown, Mr. Taylor arose to announce that he would have nothing to do with the scheme. And his feeling was so strong that the United Front soon fell apart...
...Showdown? Driving ahead against small sit-downs, Detroit Police next marched up to the Newton Packing Co. plant, called on the sitters to come out. To Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back...
...steel strike, the stock has climbed steadily, crossing par last month. By the start of last week Big Steel had assumed its pristine place as the stockmarket's undisputed leader. Evident it was by now that some people either knew or suspected that a long and costly showdown between the Steel Corporation and the CIO was not inevitable. Sure enough, the announcement soon came that President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel's biggest operating subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, was conferring with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, followed by the historic revelation that Chairman Myron C. Taylor...