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...President appointed three gentlemen: Edwin Seymour Smith, onetime newshawk, who became Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor & Industries; Harry Alvin Millis, head of the University of Chicago's Economics Department; and, as chairman, an able, energetic young lawyer who happened to be the great grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...
Lloyd Kirkham Garrison had stepped fast in his career. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, which he left at 20 to enlist in the Navy during the War. In 1919 he returned to Cambridge and in three years he had his law degree. To Manhattan he took his young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover...
With a clear head on which grows little hair, a good sense of humor which often takes a literary turn despite a fondness for slang in ordinary conversation, an indifference to formality which comes out in slipshod clothes, Chairman Garrison, with his colleagues, has decided in two months more questions than the old Labor Board did in nine. Last week they undertook to decide the biggest and most vexing question of the year for Labor and Industry: What does Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act mean...
Once with 1,500 men Morgan attacked a Federal garrison of 2,500, got clean away with 1,800 prisoners, some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants...
Just whose baby the San Francisco strike was now, nobody could say. New York's Senator Wagner flew out to Portland as a "special adviser." Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the new National Labor Relations Board, sent the Board's chief examiner, P. A. Donoghue, to San Francisco. The Labor Department ordered a conciliator up from Dallas. But the Federal Government showed reluctance to embroil itself further. At her Washington desk sat Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins...