Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...
Likelihood of the Senate rejecting Poet MacLeish was small. Recognition of his abilities beyond scholarship and gentility are not confined to the White House in Washington. There he was first introduced as a writer for FORTUNE during the New Deal's honeymoon in 1933, and Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to recall that they had a mutual friend in Felix Frankfurter, whom Archie MacLeish encountered at Harvard Law School, which graduated him in 1919 with top honors. For FORTUNE in 1935 he wrote The Case Against Roosevelt, unearthing from Massachusetts' constitution the basic American tenet (a prime plank...
...employes," said the big motor-maker who was the first to sign up with C. I. O.'s union in 1937. "What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal...
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Since then the trust-busting division has been queasy of talking to industries it was prosecuting, fearful of laying itself open to the indignation of hard-boiled Federal Judges, and of public suspicion that it is using criminal inquiries as clubs to beat recalcitrant monopolists into a New Deal pattern. Last week, however, Harry Hopkins' Department of Commerce stepped into the advisory breach, announced a new Government service for harried antitrust case defendants...