Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and James J. Davis (Labor) have served since the beginning of President Harding's administration (almost six years). No Cabinet trio has continued in office together for so long since the Civil War. Of the mighty works of Messrs. Mellon and Hoover, much has been said; but what of Mr. Davis, that handsome Moose, who likes so well to write of his iron-puddling days, who runs the youngest department of the Cabinet...
...western Pennsylvania son James J., aged eleven, took up the family art of iron-puddling. At 16, he was admitted to the union and soon was a master puddler. Many years later, when he had become Secretary of Labor, when he was reputedly worth a million dollars, Mr. Davis published an autobiography, The Iron Puddler, in which he told of the glamor of his onetime...
...Pennsylvania, said to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Professor Willits is the head of the Department of Industry at Wharton School, as well as the head of the industrial Research Work being done there. As one of this country's outstanding authorities in the field of industrial relations, labor, and production, he is giving two lectures this week to the first year class of the Harvard Business School and is presenting cases to the second year...
Baldwin & Mosley. Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
...defeated Conservative candidate, J. M. Pike, scathingly recalled how Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia (Curzon) had poured out Curzon gold in the campaign, adding: "The electorate seemed to have be hypnotized by Mosley's worldly possessions. The main lesson of the election is that the conquest the Labor party by wealthy aristocrats has begun...