Word: herrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Wagner Act holds the use of labor spies an unfair labor practice, members were interested in a blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...
Justice Wasservogel pondered: She is past the age of consent. If she wants to marry this man, she has a right to do so. "Of course," he said to glowering Mr. Herrick, "she ought to listen to your advice. You may have very good reasons for opposing your daughter's marriage...
...said Miss Herrick. "And you still say you would marry...
...Herrick gave her reasons at length. Meanwhile, reporters found the proceedings less sweet and less sentimental, Our Town getting more and more like the Big City. One noted that Miss Herrick winked at a friend as she slumped back against the wall. One learned that George had many feminine admirers. One discovered an intimate friend of Miss Herrick's, unearthed a long, involved story about Miss Herrick leaving home, getting a job at a big perfumer's, going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice...
Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...