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...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...
...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...