Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...
...once attorney for such great corporations as the Pennsylvania Railroad and A. & P. chain stores, is an ardent New Dealer, hardly likely to bring much comfort to the private utilities which TVA opposes. His portrait, as a champion of social justice under the New Deal, was painted into a labor scene in one of the Department of Justice's new murals by his brother, Artist George Biddle...
...Senate last week in response to a special message from President Roosevelt in April. Subject to approval by the House, after being rammed through over some serious Senate criticism, the N. E. C. will be composed of three Senators, three Representatives, an expert each from the Treasury, Justice, Labor and Commerce Departments, one each from SEC and FTC. The committee's province as set forth in the resolution sponsored by Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney...
...matter of simple economics, it became essential that the North Side gangsters of Kansas City, Mo., find some outlet for talents that were lying idle because of a drive on slot machines and gambling. Labor unions, often the victims of unemployed racketeers, provided the solution. Last year, Clark Pendar, head of the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association of Kansas City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, found it wise to leave town in a hurry. Promptly and without formality, Walter A. Mahan, well known to the police but up to that moment undistinguished as a labor leader, became...
...warrant for Mahan on the basis of a Federal statute against interstate felonies. A few hours later, a taxi drew up at a street intersection in the Plaza district of Kansas City, Mahan stepped out and gave himself up to waiting police. At week's end, former Labor Leader Mahan was arraigned on ten charges, held in $8,500 bail. The Journal-Post, satisfied that window-smashing was over, prepared to expose other rackets. One thing it wanted explained was why Kansas City gambling joints scrupulously served no liquor, while liquor joints scrupulously allowed no gambling...