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Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
...lined, full face, a kindly smile, a soothing voice. "If all priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late, famed Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, at whose grave he preached in 1930. "The best trouble shooter Labor has," Madam Secretary Perkins has said of him. One of his good friends is A. F. of L.'s Baptist president, William Green...
...abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer, but what the hell for I don't know...
...deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor vote is extremely important...