Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose common object was to break it completely. These tactics have now become a routine practice of Secretary of Labor Doak. It is against this practice, carried on under cover of the immigration laws, that the Liberal Club protests...
...Ambassador Edge, New Jersey Wet, home on leave from Paris, after a conference with President Hoover announced that he was returning immediately to his post but would be back in the U. S. to make Hoover speeches in the autumn campaign. With Secretary of Labor Doak, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, called to give Mr. Hoover some advice on stabilizing the bituminous coal industry. Harvey Firestone, tiremaker, popped in to pay his respects, as did General John Joseph Pershing. James Cash Penney shepherded a delegation of wives of the managers of his stores...
...famed potato toter: Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak...
...with a black one. Secretary of State Stimson marched out in a derby. Soon the full Cabinet was assembled. A solid semicircle of cameramen began snapping, clicking and cranking at them to get the first picture in more than a year of the President & official family. Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with his colleagues. The whole group continued to buzz with informal talk. Mr. Stimson chatted away with Secretary Mellon as if they were in private conference. Secretary Wilbur bent his head to hear...
...unemployment and relief. From the Treasury he got a report which showed that $453,000,000 had been authorized for 758 public building projects, that at least $300,000,000 worth of this work would be actively started before snow flies. To the White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways has succeeded in finding jobs for 281,769 unemployed." Next the President called in Julius Barnes, board chairman and Silas Strawn, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...