Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, Freshmen teams have been slow to get under way. They reported on Saturday or Monday and the practice sessions were interrupted first by the first meeting of English A, then by the first meeting of German A, then by Hygiene and before you could say Jack Robinson, the first game was only a week away...
...Miss Robinson." cried the father of the pressmen's union, "had no more to do with the employment of Jack Wilshear than my office boy! I think she is 1,000,000% in every detail. There are enough two-fisted men around here without picking on a little woman...
General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with...
...tale went on. At the White House, President Roosevelt was supposed to have suggested that General Johnson go to Europe to study recovery measures. The General rapped back: "You're trying to ease me out like George Peek." Then he stalked angrily back to his office. Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, his onetime stenographer but now his ultraloyal assistant and shadow at NRA headquarters, urged him to make a "dramatic exit," for Business would surely rally to him if he did so. So the General dictated a two-and-a-half page letter. By midnight it was done...
...tribute to women who governed by sense or sex was made by General Johnson's partner in the current contest, a slim ambitious miss who, a year before, had been an inconspicuous nobody at Democratic National Committee head quarters. Thinking more of her future than her past, NRAssistant Frances Robinson continued...