Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
...Mr. Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...
...right-hand woman, handsome Eugenia Pope. Efficient, 33-year-old Miss Pope did much to make life bearable for her boss, fending off importunate callers and imposing order in an office not always noted for order. Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take his $10,000 job in Washington, had nothing better in sight last week than a $7,500 place as labor-relations man for Reconstruction Finance Corp...
Herbert Hoover, irked at the needling of his plan-embargo of only "offensive weapons"-by military experts (who called it "impractical"), went on the air to outline more fully his reasons. Lately Mr. Hoover has been the unpublicized guest of honor at a series of unpublicized but very serious little dinners. The other guests are Republicans who have high hopes of a GOP resurgence in 1940. At one of these dinners last week ex-President Hoover feelingly referred to ex-Hero Lindbergh. Lindbergh, said he, was an earnest, sincere young American who succumbed to some rotten advice...
First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...