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April 25: "Harley M. Kilgore is the man in the Senate most likely to succeed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor...
...result of a two week discussion of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in English 23, by Winthrop Ames lecturer Harley Granville-Barker, the committee in charge of the Ames fund has announced a contest for the best student essay on any phase of the play...
...Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
...Deal Senators, Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia and James E. Murray of Montana, backed by labor's legions (C.I.O., A.F. of L., and the National Farmers Union) ordered a grand-scale attack. They demanded that the Federal Government pay a top unemployment compensation of $35 a week for 104 weeks (to a man with three dependents who had been earning $48 or more). Most of this would come right out of the Federal Treasury, as a gift...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...