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Adding to Capone's difficulties last week was a deportation order signed by Secretary of Labor Doak for Antonio ("Mops") Volpe. stout Capone henchman, convicted ten years ago of forging War Saving Stamps. "What's the matter with Volpe?" complained the badgered Capone. "He's raised seven kids and that's the best recommendation I know...
Labor?William Nuckles Doak of Virginia...
...obsolete sections of the Revised Statutes and Statutes at Large of the U.S.C. Passed a bill authorizing the expenditure of $30,000,000 to modernize the U. S. battleships New Mexico, Mississippi and Idaho in accordance with the London Naval Treaty. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of William Nuckles Doak to be Secretary of Labor.- House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶. Received a special message from President Hoover requesting extraordinary unemployment relief funds (see p. 14). ¶ Passed the first supply bill, that for the Treasury & Post Office Departments totalling $1,083,553,943 after rejecting...
...Last week William Green, whose American of Labor President Hoover had in making the Doak appointment, "We regard the incident as closed - for present, at least...
...last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife...