Word: puddler
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...Hollywood, Calif., for conferences over the cinematization of his book, The Iron Puddler, Senator (onetime Secretary of Labor) James John Davis was offered the leading part in the play. He declined. His excuse: he never had made love to anyone but his wife...
...Green's career in many ways is a parallel of that of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. The former Pittsburgh from puddler is an outstanding example of a man who has risen from the ranks to a position of authority, while Green worked his way up from the Ohio mines to his present position at the head of what is perhaps the greatest labor organization in the world...
...official at Harrisburg under his thumb. In an attempt to become Boss, Mr. Vare, overlord of Philadelphia, put up Francis Shunk Brown for Governor, his chief attorney in his futile fight for a Senate seat (TIME, Dec. 16). As a matter of political convenience, Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was added to the Vare ticket as the senatorial candidate...
Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Ridgeway Grundy who goes into a primary election next month against Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis for the Republican senatorial nomination, grew so excited detailing to the Privileges & Elections Committee alleged "slush funds'' being raised against him by the Vare-Atterbury faction, that Chairman Shortridge had to call him sharply to order. Secretary Davis, when he heard a Senate committee would investigate Mr. Grundy's campaign expenditures along with his own, rapturously exclaimed...
...Grundy now holds. When Mr. Vare withdrew as a senatorial candidate to support Mr. Davis, the Labor Secretary acknowledged the courtesy as follows: "I'm always grateful for the help of any good man." Candidate Davis makes much of the fact that he was once a Pennsylvania iron puddler. He likes to return to the Pittsburgh Mills periodically and, before well-focussed cameras, fiddle around the furnaces, get dirty, wash up with "the men" at their trough, shake hands with one and all, smile amiably and good-naturedly...