Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked far more happy than the front, like the carefree junior editors of a college publication who are always relegated to the back of the yearbook picture. They did not have to worry about hands, feet or the bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture...
...addition, there are influxes over both the Canadian and Mexican borders which are unrestricted by quotas. Southwesterners want no restriction on Mexican immigration, which provides cheap ranch and mine labor...
Immigration is the biggest row the Secretary of Labor has to hoe. Three years ago strict quota laws went into effect to try and keep U. S. work for U. S. workmen and not overcrowd the "land of opportunity...
Last week, when Secretary Davis of Labor reported on fiscal 1927, his immigration figures received close attention. They showed...
...real power is therefore in the hands of the radical farm bloc, who will be in a position to force through drastic legislation, such as farm relief and the curtailment of judicial favor to issue injunctions in labor disputes...