Word: richberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked his way through the University of Chicago, got a job as a newshawk on the Daily News. He quit the Daily News to return to the University for a law course, came out and set up a small practice in the Loop. His onetime partner was Donald Randall Richberg, longtime attorney for railroad labor and now counsel to General Hugh Johnson's Industrial Recovery Administration in Washington. "Mrs. Ickes' Husband." In 1911 Harold Ickes married Anna Wilmarth Thompson who had divorced Professor James Westfall Thompson. By her first marriage she had two children, Anna and Wilmarth...
...code, got them to include in it Roosevelt's pet, forest conservation. Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public election of the directors of industry. . . . If they fumble their great opportunity...
Doak v. Norris. As a Roosevelt stumpster Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...
Labor's plea, eloquently voiced for the 21 rail unions and the A. F. of L., came to Senator Borah's committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...