Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents of the New York Daily News, John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...felt, at least Justices Brandeis and Roberts were on the best of friendly terms with Justice Black. And, leaping on the back of Chief Justice Hughes's remarks to the Law Institute, the New York Daily News's enthusiastic Washington Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson broke all records for conclusion jumping on the subject: "Developments in the Capitol . . . suggested again that some of the lawgivers of the United States Supreme Court had hitched up their judicial robes and in dignified fashion were in the process of putting the slug on their colleague, Associate Justice Hugo...
...last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...
...temporary job as Secretary of War was lopped from the top last week when President Roosevelt appointed Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt to be U. S. High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of the Philippines. In Washington, the New York News's Columnists John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson reported the following exchange between two Indianians who had been grooming their handsome ex-Governor for the White House...
...direct subsidies to shippers. ¶At his first press conference after his return to the White House from Hyde Park the President paternally suggested to the assembled newshawks that they buy the Government's new baby bonds (see p. 63). From the back of the room pert Doris Fleeson (New York Daily News), piped: "What with...