Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Labor Doak, because he is the newest member of the Cabinet without a full year's service behind him, will probably spend an all-Washington summer...
...Manhattan, idle seamen complained to the municipal employment bureau that certain U. S. yacht owners were importing foreign seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
...convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Houston last week Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak pulled from his pocket an old, flat, Irish potato. This, he announced, was his "magic potato." It brought him good luck. Said he: "It is even good for neurasthenia...
Secretary of Labor Doak had good reason last week to be glad of a "magic potato." Throughout the land the following events were taking place...
...something about Unemployment and Depression. Legion reports to headquarters showed 6,000,000 jobless of whom 750,000 were former service men. At the White House the Hoover secretariat announced: "Mr. Hoover is as interested in maintaining the American wage scale as any man alive." Returned to Washington, Secretary Doak took credit for settling six threatened strikes during the week, announced that any wage reductions by Industry would be considered by the Administration a violation of confidence, would justify Labor's demand for pay increases...