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