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...keep working 17 hours a day." His employer's failure to practice what she preached, he added, was disrupting his home life. On his first free night before looking for another job. Chauffeur St. George went to a wrestling match with onetime Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak whom he had driven for three years. Said he: "There's one swell guy! He never had anybody work 17 hours...
...Good Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...
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...