Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William Randolph Hearst got him to look over his jumbled publishing empire (see p. 26). Not until this spring did Franklin Roosevelt persuade his rusty-haired friend again to give...
...fitness of a man or woman for a job." Her formula for getting along with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts' Congressman William Patrick Connery Jr., Mrs. Norton was chairwoman of the House's District of Columbia Committee, the unofficial "Mayor of Washington...
Died. William Patrick Connery Jr., 48, Democratic Representative from Massachusetts, co-author of the National Labor Relations Act, Chairman of the House Labor Committee; of food poisoning; in Washington...
...compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down over Prince Patrick Island to Ft. Simpson in far northern Canada, then veered to the Pacific Coast, headed down...
...Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...