Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunnewell '02, Secretary of the Corporation, has received from the Department of Labor notice of the Doak order forbidding students admitted to the United States under a non-quota basis from working to meet their expenses. The number of men at Harvard last year who were admitted in this classification was approximately 100 men, or one-third of the total group of foreign students in attendance at the University...
...work. The regulation primarily checks persons with little academic purposes in mind, who enroll in a university such as Columbia, for example, with the occult aim of living and working in the United States without coming in under the quota regulation. "These pseudo students deserve the restriction that the Doak ruling is destined to give. The deplorable fact is that a somewhat scattered group of foreign students, some of whom are dependent on their part time earnings to fulfill scholarship obligations, and whose jobs cannot greatly relieve domestic unemployment, are to be deprived of work to help them meet expenses...
Last spring Secretary of Labor Doak told newsmen that he had been supplied departmental data which showed that employment was increasing throughout the land. Fooled before by such cheery statements from politically-minded Secretaries, the reporters went to see Commissioner Stewart to check up. The white-crowned, white-whiskered old man telephoned Secretary Doak that the statistics given him warranted no such declaration. Thereupon Secretary Doak recalled the newsmen, told them to disregard his earlier statement and then, in front of them, gave Statistician Stewart a tongue-lashing for daring to contradict his chief. It was Secretary Doak who refused...
...speed his renomination. Secretaries of State Stimson and of the Treasury Mills could be spotted under the New York placard. Secretary of War Hurley, aggressive and smiling, would be with his fellow Oklahomans. The Missouri contingent would contain Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the Virginia delegation Secretary of Labor Doak. But of all the Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet members present none would compare in influence and importance to Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, President Hoover's pre-convention manager and his personal representative at Chicago...
...immigration commissioner who has it in her power to recommend release but who refuses to do so in spite of the insistent and ever increasing demands of not only the members of the textile union but of every class of society. Failure on the part of Secretary Doak to ameliorate this condition, will bring Miss Berkman's hunger strike on May 8, making the case national and forcing students as well as the working class to recognize the importance of its effect...