Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...deny that he and John Hanes and Herbert Gaston and anyone else from the Treasury who might be invited to the Capitol, were forbidden to recommend any tax revision...
Next to tossing off a round phrase of his own or snagging a quote from Shakespeare, John Llewellyn Lewis likes nothing more than to be shaved in bed. At times of stress, he indulges this soothing fancy whenever a barber is within telephone call...
Last week was a stressful time for John L. Lewis, and a barber of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore ministered daily to the supine prince of Labor...
There was a pretty threefold situation: 1) Expensively lodged in the Commodore, with his lawyers and lieutenants of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike...