Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obsolete sections of the Revised Statutes and Statutes at Large of the U.S.C. Passed a bill authorizing the expenditure of $30,000,000 to modernize the U. S. battleships New Mexico, Mississippi and Idaho in accordance with the London Naval Treaty. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of William Nuckles Doak to be Secretary of Labor.- House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶. Received a special message from President Hoover requesting extraordinary unemployment relief funds (see p. 14). ¶ Passed the first supply bill, that for the Treasury & Post Office Departments totalling $1,083,553,943 after rejecting...
...Last week William Green, whose American of Labor President Hoover had in making the Doak appointment, "We regard the incident as closed - for present, at least...
...Brotherhood of Railway Train men is not in the A. F. of L., backbones of which are the building and printing trades unions. And it was because, like West Virginia's Doak, James John Davis had shown sympathy for the employers' side of labor disputes, that the late great President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L. gave President Harding so much opposition in Mr. Davis' appointment in 1921. President Hoover decided to conciliate the A. F. of L. and its present President William Green...
Last week President Hoover threw conciliation and consultation to the winds. Unexpectedly he issued a statement appointing Editor Doak after all. He took occasion to rebuke Mr. Green, saying: "[His] enunciation that appointments must come from one organization in fact imposes upon me the duty to maintain the principle of open and equal opportunity and freedom in appointments to public office...
...last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife...