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...headway toward settling labor disputes growing out of NRA, President Roosevelt got Congress to set up a new National Labor Relations Board. Outside the jurisdiction of NRA, this new agency was empowered to make decisions and enforce them. To it the President appointed three gentlemen: Edwin Seymour Smith, onetime newshawk, who became Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor & Industries; Harry Alvin Millis, head of the University of Chicago's Economics Department; and, as chairman, an able, energetic young lawyer who happened to be the great grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...
...Will the newshawk who questions Howell...
...Constitution?" asked a grinning newshawk of the President...
...Gruening is no doctor of philosophy like Dr. Tugwell or Dr. Moley, but a real M. D. His medical practice, however, has been devoted mostly to curing social ills. In 1911, even before graduating from Harvard Medical School, he started as newshawk, became copyreader, city editor, managing editor successively to Boston's American, Herald, Traveler, Journal, then to Manhattan's Tribune. Nine years of such experience convinced him of the pathological condition of U. S. society...
...Henri announced last week that the prime purpose of his visit was to confer with his old friend Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil. "There is always," said he, "enough to talk about when oil men get together." But to a newshawk who asked him if a world oil conference was likely this year, he shot back: "What can be done until you put your house in order...