Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendship to the New Deal which has the slump already too much with it. Therefore, the topic of most concern to businessmen was little touched on publicly. One man, however, raised the doleful subject in no uncertain terms: Virgil Jordan, president of the fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board. He declared...
Most of the labor sessions-largely devoted to undiluted labor-baiting-were closed to the Press. But reporters were led in to hear a speech by Hartley W. Barclay, the Mill & Factory editor who defied a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board last fortnight, which he maintained was a violation of the Freedom of the Press. Before Editor Barclay spoke, a list of newspapers and wire services represented was read off to the businessmen because: "No doubt you will want to get these papers and see how they treat our people." After the Barclay speech the reporters were...
...request of Charles Fahy, general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, reporters were also barred from a "labor clinic." An Associated Pressman who got in reported that Mr. Fahy's reception was distinctly cool-an observation borne out by the fact that Mr. Fahy was later approached by Vice President H. L. Derby of American Cyanamid Co. who declared: "That was a fine, courageous action of yours, appearing here this morning." In spite of the fact that most of the N. A. M.'s members are reconciled to collective bargaining, they managed to write a labor platform...
...that he had misrepresented his dealings in Old Masters and securities, had filed a fraudulent 1931 income tax return. Andrew Mellon was not alive to see the second labor completed by the Board of Tax Appeals in Washington last week...
...Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages of testimony were presented. Mr. Mellon, who spent five days on the stand in Washington in the spring...