Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...widely blamed on his adoption of policies recommended by his G. O. P. advisers. He was said to give too ready an ear to mandates of the politicians. Last week, however, this same President turned around and spoke out twice for himself. He defied the American Federation of Labor (2,933,545 votes) by appointing his friend William Nuckles Doak to be Secretary of Labor. Secondly he defied Senate Floorleader Watson and many a Republican of importance by announcing that he would soon submit to the Senate for ratification the protocols calling for U. S. entrance into the World Court...
Though it was the last created (1913) and hence the "lowest" in rank, the Labor portfolio is easily the fourth most ticklish for a President to assign. His Treasury choice, most ticklish, must have the approval of the American Bankers' Association and Big Business at large. Next most ticklish is picking an Attorney General and on this Presidents invariably consult the American Bar Association. Secretary of State is of less definite, more external importance, causing a President to calculate how his Administration will be regarded by other nations. Then, having suited Capital, Bench & Bar, and the World at Large...
...Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor Act). He had not fought for strikes and boycotts and against company unions. Hence he would be acceptable to Business...
...meeting after the dinner in the evening will be led by President Lowell and Dean W. B. Donham '98. Professor Elton Mayo will talk on "Recent Research Work in Labor." Professor Alfred N. Whitehead will also speak...
...President Roosevelt ordered a White House conference on the Care of Dependent Children in 1909. Result was the Children's Bureau, organized in President Taft's administration and made part of the Department of Labor when the latter was created in 1913. President Wilson in 1919 held a White House conference on Minimum Standards of Child Welfare...