Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advisers. He was said to give too ready an ear to mandates of the politicians. Last week, however, this same President turned around and spoke out twice for himself. He defied the American Federation of Labor (2,933,545 votes) by appointing his friend William Nuckles Doak to be Secretary of Labor. Secondly he defied Senate Floorleader Watson and many a Republican of importance by announcing that he would soon submit to the Senate for ratification the protocols calling for U. S. entrance into the World Court...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...