Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advisory Council Mr. Fechner has experts representing the four departments (Agriculture, Interior, War, Labor) most concerned with the program. Because Franklin Roosevelt implicitly trusted him, Robert Fechner ran and still runs the show...
Never before has the U. S. had a show like Mr. Fechner's. By statute, its purposes are: 1) to provide employment (plus vocational training), and 2) to conserve and develop "the natural resources of the United States." For this, CCC between April 5, 1933 and December 31, 1938 spent $2,125,000,000. On its rolls had been 2,120,000 men, the number varying widely at various times. A few hard facts show that the U. S. got more for its money from CCC than from most other depression-begotten experiments...
Potato Bug. Franklin Roosevelt and his late, trusted Secretary Louis McHenry Howe knew Robert Fechner in World War days when he represented his machinists' union in negotiations with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Their friendship continued, and on his 57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart...
...should be clear that the U. A. W. is not severing its relations with the C. I. O., but that Homer Martin is deserting both the U. A. W. and the C. I. O."-Philip Murray & Sidney Hillman (for Mr. Lewis) to Homer Martin...
...locals choose between two rival conventions called for next month, C. I. O.'s March 27 in Cleveland, Homer Martin's March 4 in Detroit. Presidents Thomas and Martin last week moved to protect themselves against each other's legal maneuvering by hiring high-powered lawyers. Mr. Martin chose Frank P. Walsh of Manhattan and Frank Mulholland of Toledo. Mr. Thomas chose Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, counsel for years to Sidney Hillman's embattled Amalgamated Clothing Workers, son of the late Chief Justice, brother of Ohio's new conservative Senator...