Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived in the U. S. early this year from Russia to buy tool machinery for U. S. S. R. While on temporary credentials he became a vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp., thus violating immigration regulations against an alien transferring his activities while in the country. Secretary of Labor Doak, no friend of Reds, moved swiftly and vigorously to deport him. U. S. firms selling him tool machinery protested loudly to the White House. Last week it developed that President Hoover, anxious to retain Soviet trade, had interceded with an order to Secretary Doak to adopt a more liberal policy...
...Cabinet members strolled out later through the White House lobby, newshawks buttonholed Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak, the man who carries a potato for good luck. They queried him pointedly on the matter...
Secretary Doak flushed angrily. "What can be done about it?" he asked...
Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak called delegates of the miners to a second fact-finding conference, put before them the discouraging result of the operators' meeting. The workers insisted that only by such a national conference could any progress be made toward curing the industry, that it should be given strength by government sponsorship as suggested by their President Lewis...
Secretary of Labor Doak had written a 5"-page letter heatedly protesting against the Commission's conclusions on his Department's deportation methods...