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...succeed his great & good friend Joseph Kennedy, who was last week sworn in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the President named a new head of the Maritime Commission: Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land-once a famed footballer at Annapolis, now 59-who has served on the Commission for one year, is an expert on naval construction and an air-minded (but distant) cousin of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...York's Senator Royal S. Copeland is a self-dedicated friend of the working man who is regarded by Labor with much suspicion. His particular jurisdiction is seafaring men, which he claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring...
...typical day last week he had 21 callers. His good friend, Joseph P. Kennedy, spent an hour with him before packing for Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
These things are no secrets in Pennsylvania: 1) that John L. Lewis wants his friend and fellow Mine Worker, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, elected Governor this year; 2) that Pennsylvania's Democratic boss, Senator Joseph F. Guffey does not want him at the head of the ticket because Mr. Kennedy is a better labor man than Democrat; 3) that Pennsylvania's present Governor, George Howard Earle, can hardly afford to alienate either Joseph Guffey or the strongest labor leader in U. S. history if he expects to be elected Senator this year and President in 1940. Last week...
...sponsor of the proposed trip of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to the U. S., is cordially disliked by organized labor because he (1 heads an agency for strikebreakers, 2 is chairman of Republic Steel Corporation, 3 called out the militia in a textile strike, 4 is a friend of the DuPonts, 5 invented an efficiency unit system which workers regard the same as '"stretch-out" or "speed...