Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important is what he intends to do with his minority. One way might be to take it back into A. F. of L. While Mr. Martin's delegates wore C. I. 0. buttons his convention publicity was handled by Chester M. Wright, onetime A. F. of L. publicist, now the Washington representative of professional Press Agent Carl
...another clue to Mr. Martin's varied connections was afforded last week by his former Secretary-Treasurer, Loren I. Houser. Having gone over to C. I. O., Mr. Houser declared that Mr. Martin recently received from Manhattan two checks totaling $25,000. In Manhattan is Mr. Martin's friend David Dubinsky, whose rich International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is also out of both C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. and might well welcome company as a Labor independent...
...came the turn of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer, now Secretary of the Treasury, to go up Capitol Hill to explain to an inquisitive if not skeptical Congress the Administration's money plans. Having already announced that the Administration seeks no new taxes (except on Government salaries and securities), Mr. Morgenthau had to get Congress...
First before a House committee, then before Senators, Mr. Morgenthau was on the defensive from the outset. The reason for renewing both the President's power of dollar devaluation and the life of the Stabilization Fund is to protect U. S. business if European currencies go to pot, but Mr. Morgenthau had solemnly to assure the House that the Administration had, at this time, no idea of further devaluation; that the Fund had not and never would be used to finance foreign purchases of arms...
...Mr. Morgenthau said: "If I was sure all the principal trading nations of the world could get together to stabilize currency, I would not ask this extension...