Word: durkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his Cabinet, and finally a moment of deep happiness were combined in one of Dwight Eisenhower's best and worst weeks. Flying overnight to Washington from his Denver vacation headquarters, Ike spent a busy nine hours in conference with top advisers, accepting the resignation of Labor Secretary Durkin, and attending funeral services for his old bridge partner, Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
When Martin Patrick Durkin resigned last week as Secretary of Labor, an old union colleague remarked: "Like any old steam fitter, he knew when the pressure got too high." The pressure had been building up for a long time in several boilers-including Martin Durkin...
Eisenhower had promised labor some revision of the Taft-Hartley law, and his appointment of Durkin was a concrete example of his intention to keep that promise. Besides, Ike had come to like burly, earnest Martin Durkin. Sitting in on a White House discussion of Taft-Hartley, Ike had said: "I want you for your heart and brain, Martin, not for your political influence." But Taft-Hartley revision was not solely a matter of intentions, heart and brain. It was a matter of relative pressures working for specific changes in the law. The story of the pressures...
...Finally Durkin got tired of waiting, decided to go ahead without a C.I.O. representative. Fortnight ago he sent the White House four nominations: ¶ For Assistant Secretary in charge of labor standards, instead of Edelman: Harrison Clayton Hobart, 64, an assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a self-styled "rock-ribbed Republican." ¶For Assistant Secretary (international labor affairs): Spencer Miller Jr., 62, adult-education specialist, president of the union-sponsored International University in Springfield. Mass...
...Olander backs out, Durkin will probably look for another businessman to fill the post. In any case, there is no longer a Labor Department vacancy waiting for the C.I.O. Of the C.I.O. brass, Durkin says hopefully: "They know I tried...