Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
Congressional growling at Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week culminated in a sharp, open bark. Republican J. Parnell Thomas, of Allendale, N. J. offered a resolution in the House instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether Miss Perkins should be impeached for failure to deport radical Labor Leader Harry Bridges, alleged Communist...
...what she and her colleagues have said all along: that the only ground on which Harry Bridges might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established as a fact; that even if it were established, the Department of Labor would still have to wait for the Supreme Court to pass on the case of Joseph Strecker, whose deportation was halted by the Fifth Circuit Court on the ground that being a Communist was not sufficient cause...
Said South Carolina's adroit Jimmy Byrnes: "No cotton farmer and no wheat farmer can compete [for labor] with WPA wages...
Frankfurter, the third Roosevelt appointee listened in on the Court discussion of the T. V. A., while the decisions on the Child Labor Amendment and on the Kansas City stockyard settlement were presumably delayed until the new justice can take part in the discussions...