Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington, March 16. Recovery Administrater Hugh S. Johnson today ordered a poll of employes of the Reward G. Budd Mfg. Co., of Philadelphia to decide whether they are properly represented in collective bargaining by a company union...
...This is an open round-up for criticism." General Hugh S. Johnson was addressing hundreds and hundreds of plain citizens gathered by special invitation in the big auditorium of the Department of Commerce Building in Washington to find fault with NRA. But before any critic could open his mouth the belligerent NRAdministrator delivered a 90-minute harangue in which he flayed faultfinders in general, admitted the most glaring shortcomings of the recovery program and proposed a whole series of improvements. Said...
Last week Henry Herbermann was unceremoniously ousted from the presidency of his company. The Shipping Board's credit expert, appointed to investigate lines in debt to the Government, had decided that Export needed a thorough shakeup. Summoned was brusque William Hugh Coverdale, financial engineer, president of Canada Steamship Lines, to take the presidency of Export. Exporter Herbermann was made vice president, will cooperate with the new management in paying off the loans he contracted...
BUSINESS men who came to Washington expecting that the Government of the United States in the person of General Hugh Johnson would hold the scales even in interpreting the law were shocked at the outspoken championship of organized labor and the denunciation of the so-called company union...
...President's latest decree on the National Labor Board may, without any occult insight into the backstage life of the N. R. A., be safely termed a victory for the shrewdly-hitting Secretary of Labor over her burly opponent, Hugh Johnson. In the struggle over the remodelling of the strike mediation, Miss Perkins, despite her hat, seems to have gained the ear of the Executive very effectively, and has brought it about that the N. L. B. no longer is compelled to hand over its decisions to the so-called compliance division for final review, but will be able...