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Feckless Secretary Schwellenbach admitted, "I'm getting awfully tired," but added wistfully that he was still hopeful of an "early solution...
...others remembered that Wallace and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach have recently been in frequent consultation over the forthcoming labor-management conference, beginning on Nov. 5. Had Henry Wallace deliberately tossed up a debatable idea to test public reaction...
...Background. To solve the U.S. labor problem, Harry Truman had picked a man whose career was a curious mixture of the dull and the intriguing. As a Senator, Lew Schwellenbach had been among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness...
Wisconsin-born, 51-year-old Lew Schwellenbach is a man with a purpose. A boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
...started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...