Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terse, five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis' job out from under...
...Pacific Northwest a strike of 60,000 lumberworkers was called by an A.F. of L. union which was demanding a minimum hourly wage...
...Newark, a strike by the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, A.F. of L., resulted in the closing of 242 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout northern New Jersey and Staten Island...
...Government's labor functions. Then, with the battle well under way, he incorporated the War Labor Board, the U.S. Employment Service and the War Manpower Commission into Secretary Lew Schwellenbach's reviving Labor Department. In turn, Schwellenbach announced the appointment of handsome, wavy-haired Edgar L. Warren, who had been chairman of the regional labor board in Chicago, to head a revitalized U.S. Conciliation Service. Chief Conciliator Warren dispatched 20 of his 250 conciliators to Detroit to try to thrash things...
...Reformation. To speed the process General MacArthur and his chief military deputy, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, began setting up special sections to oversee specific phases of Japan's reformation...