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...nature in the role of antagonist to wage-&-hour legislation. Hence last week's fight was conducted mainly along sectional lines. Leaders of the opposition were Sam McReynolds of Chattanooga, who predicted that the Bill would "put the life and death struggle of industry in the hands of Madam Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that our living conditions are not proper and do not constitute the standard of living that you seem...
...Madam Secretary Perkins corrected an interpretation of her offer to extend "facilities" to the Duke and Duchess, indicated that it stands but is not to be interpreted as an "invitation" to come over as guests of the Department of Labor...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
...McGrady's career as an honest, efficient two-fisted Washington labor lobbyist caused him to be boomed for Labor Secretary, but Franklin Roosevelt gave the job to his wife's good friend, Frances Perkins. When Postmaster General Farley recommended Ed McGrady as an assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more...
...baldheaded, energetic Ed McGrady has had more concerns than Madam Perkins. One of them is cash. He started his union career as a pressman on the Boston Herald after he had once acted as a sparring partner for Terence "Terrible Terry" McGovern, and today although he looks 45, he is actually 20 years older. Forty-some years as an organizer and union leader brought him great prestige but little cash, and Ed McGrady felt that he owed it to his family to do better financially than the $9,000 he gets as second-string to Madam Perkins' fiddle. Last...