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...salary be boosted from $7,500 as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to $10,000 as Undersecretary of Agriculture for doing practically the same work as in the past? 2) Should Senator Smith get the patronage he demanded from the White House? After President Roosevelt had failed to appoint one Reuben Gosnell as U. S. Marshal in western South Carolina, Senator Smith developed a violent feeling that Dr. Tugwell, not being a dirt farmer, was unfit to be the first man to fill the brand new office of Undersecretary of Agriculture. Both practical questions were answered in the affirmative...
...cannot afford to be set back. It is better at this time to observe the weight of sound judgment rather than the dictates of feeling. There is no more domineering, autocratic, dictorial and reprehensible group than those who represent the steel corporations of this country." Mr. Green proposed the appointment by President Roosevelt of an impartial board of three: 1) to investigate grievances and arrange for collective bargaining conferences with employers; 2) to hold workers' elections to determine what organization will represent what workers-the majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed...
Thus administration of the new law and the five men President Roosevelt will appoint to the Commission became of prime importance to most businesses. Under the power granted it by Congress the Commission could, if it chose, alter the entire face of U. S. business...
...sentencing Al Capone to jail for eleven years. A short time after President Harding made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor's emissary was a young Chicago lawyer named Donald B. Richberg. Today Mr. Richberg is NRA's chief counsel...
...Citizens of Independence still resent the merger, feel that onetime Prairie Chairman William Samuel ("Sam") Fitzpatrick "sold out." Last week resentment boiled into a law suit when the onetime secretary of Prairie Oil and six stockholders filed a petition in a Federal court to dissolve Consolidated Oil, appoint a receiver for its $375,000,000 assets. The suit charged fraud, misrepresentation and manipulation in the merger with Prairie Oil, accused "Sam" Fitzpatrick of accepting $449,000 from Mr. Sinclair "without investment or service on his part." During a Senate investigation last November it was revealed that Mr. Fitzpatrick, a small...