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Introduced to a crowd of 35,000 by Senator Charles L. McNary, his running mate-who had been drafted by Pittsburgh GOPoliticos for the occasion, in order to keep the honor from little Governor Arthur H. James-Willkie promised to appoint a man as Secretary of Labor ("it's a man's job"), to revise NLRB through special legislation, to extend Social Security, to enforce the wage-hour law, to clean out Communists in the Government. He asked labor to clean house of its racketeers. The speech went well with the audience, was said, unofficially, to have pleased...
Pointing to the steady increase in the tax rate and the city debt, the Committee suggests that unless radical reforms are adopted, it may eventually become necessary for the state legislature to appoint a Finance Commission to take over the government...
...Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave the job of running the first peacetime U. S. draft largely to Lewis Hershey. By law, either a civilian or a military man may have the $10,000-a-year post of Draft Administrator. The Army hopes that President Roosevelt will appoint Lieut. Colonel Hershey, will not be surprised if a big-name civilian gets the honor and the salary...
Realizing that the help of doers as well as thinkers will be needed, the conference will soon appoint such an advisory committee, will have businessmen, lawyers, engineers, etc. take part in the plenary sessions...
...week New Yorkers rubbed their eyes at finding the names Walker-Roosevelt-La Guardia tied together again. After lunch at the White House, Mayor LaGuardia flew back to Manhattan and, as he explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex...