Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again & again Miss Perkins tripped up Republican Secretaries of Labor Davis and Doak on their underestimates of U. S. joblessness during the Depression. When she steps into her office, she proposes not only an accurate and non-political count of unemployment but also a nation-wide system of Federal employment agencies to bring men and work together. In 1913 Miss Perkins married Paul C. Wilson, a secretary to the late John Purroy Mitchel, New York's reform mayor. They have a 16-year-old daughter. Though no Lucy Stoner, Mrs. Wilson kept her maiden name in public...
Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...
Labor's Doak: "These recurring periods of unemployment seem to me to be an indictment of our civilization. . . . Our immigration policy should be revised to, provide that no new and unattached immigrants coming for the avowed purpose of seeking work shall be admitted...
...Secretary of Labor Doak, heckled by Communists at a Brooklyn meeting for "the illegal deportation of thousands of workers," calmly retorted: "I'm used to that...
...Doak v. Norris. As a Roosevelt stumpster Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...