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...political tradition the Labor portfolio since its creation in 1913 has gone to union men. President Wilson first appointed Pennsylvania's fat, florid William Bauchop Wilson, an oldtime walking delegate. President Harding put in Pennsylvania's stubby, back-slapping James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis who retained his card as an organized steel worker and spent much public time promoting the Loyal Order of Moose. President Hoover picked William Nuckles Doak, a heavy-handed member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
Bernard C. McGuire. associate of Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to violating interstate lottery laws in conducting a Loyal Order of Moose lottery in 1930. He was sentenced to a year in prison. Senior Davis' retrial on similar charges was scheduled to take place this week...
...even to the detail of its title, is no exception, although there are moments-like the lively ceremony of a Polack wedding in a Pennsylvania steel town-in which it comes to life. It is the story of a few crucial years in the life of a steel puddler, Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford), and his loving wife, Anna. Jim starts out as a laborer, becomes, for the purposes of the narrative, a steel tycoon almost overnight. In an addled way, he gets involved with a lecherous blonde girl (Gwili André) in New York and even tries to divorce...
...Mahoning River in Youngstown last week. It was the first time in 25 years. Chemicals discharged into the Mahoning by the steel mills that line its banks for miles & miles normally kill all living things. Hot from steel mill sewage, the river has not frozen in many a puddler's memory, until this winter...
Debts, The convention enthusiastically applauded Pennsylvania's squat Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime Secretary of Labor now awaiting retrial for his part in a Moose national lottery, when he said that the debtor nations "could in a short time pay their debts without any discomfort to them" if they disarmed. But the convention leaned toward "readjustment...