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...first Secretary of Labor, Wilson named William B. Wilson (no kin), who had been secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...
Mailed from Washington last week to individuals and organizations all over the U.S. were thousands of mimeographed requests for signatures on a petition addressed to the President of the U.S. The petition's seven sponsors made an impressive list of American leaders from both parties: ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Ambassador (to Japan) Joseph C. Grew, ex-Governor (NJ.) Charles Edison, Republican Senator (N.J.) H. Alexander Smith, Democratic Senator (Ala.) John Sparkman, Republican Representative (Minn.) Walter H. Judd, Democratic Representative (Mass.) John W. McCormack. The petition...
Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. Chairman: ex-President Herbert Hoover, 77. Sworn in last week, the twelve-member commission is charged, by act of the 83rd Congress, with studying "the present organization and methods of operation of [the executive branch] to determine what changes would contribute to economy, efficiency and improved service in the transaction of the public business...
...parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described by H. L. Mencken as 'half Indian and half windmill...
Died. Joseph Sigall, 61, Polish-born portrait painter of European monarchs (Britain's George VI, Germany's Wilhelm II), U.S. Presidents (Coolidge, Hoover, F.D.R.) and celebrities (General Douglas MacArthur, Film Siren Pola Negri); of a heart ailment; in La Jolla, Calif...