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Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was expected to stay; so were Secretaries Harold Ickes (Interior), Claude Wickard (Agriculture). With labor actually working under Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Mme. Frances Perkins was slated for an ouster from the Labor Department. Some labor leader, perhaps Teamsters' Dan Tobin, would take her place...
...companies that do. Prosperous, soft-tongued, he convinces purchasers his towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...
...Hillman May Rule...
...United States enters the war Sidney Hillman will wield the power, according to the Socialist candidate, which "would be a major catastrophe, for Hillman is as complete a Machiavelli as ever walked the earth." Roosevelt if elected, may very well carry labor along with him into a dictatorship. it was forecast, and in this Hillman was described as probably a potent helper...
...clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman's clothing workers' union, in many and many another...