Word: puddler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh accountant named Michael Charles Conick got a juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such...
...much mooted control over 230,000 WPA jobs is still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...
...Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those who hope to benefit most are two more friends of Labor: Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate for Governor, and "Puddler Jim" Davis who hopes to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's Republican Senator...
...Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke to a Moose convention in Chicago. Said he: "One of the most significant developments . . . in the last quarter of a century is the apartment house. Few influences make the average person more superficial, nonchalant, and non-social." In Washington, D. C. he lives in a mansion...
...more to organize Steel along industrial lines. In effect, President Green agreed if Amalgamated would re spect craft organization. A set of illegitimate quintuplets could hardly have been more embarrassing to Amalgamated's reactionary old President Michael Francis Tighe. For 17 of his 78 years this onetime steel puddler has kept his tight little specialists' sodality of labor aristocrats in satisfied somnolence. A great&good friend of William Green and thoroughly in accord with conservative union principles, he was sincerely alarmed when the Blue Eagle hatched him some 100,000 members in 1933-34, was not comfortable until...