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...election day, when the floor of the Commodore Hotel headquarters was littered with bitten fingernails, Sherman and Rachel Adams slipped quietly away and went sightseeing at the Bronx Zoo. That night Sinclair Weeks, later to become Commerce Secretary, gallantly remarked on Rachel's fresh outdoor complexion. "We've been to the zoo to see all the animals," she explained. "Ah," said Weeks, "quite a change from the campaign." Replied Rachel: "Not so much...
...important indicator was outlined last week by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, who told the National Association of Manufacturers' meeting in Manhattan (see BUSINESS) that business activity in the first half of 1956 will rise to new heights. Weeks's forecast was based on a Commerce Department survey indicating that private capital expenditures for new plants and equipment for the first three months of the year will run at the highest rate in history, 12% above this year. If business activity and employment make only a moderate rise, total U.S. revenue will go up substantially. Each dollar over...
They were in the closing days of their best year in history, and on the verge of one that might, as Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said, be even better (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The increases in capital spending planned by some industries were eye-popping: railroads would spend 55% more in the first quarter of '56, durable-goods manufacturers 25% more, nondurable-goods makers 12% more...
...emptying hotel ballroom, and began to argue angrily. Sligh said that the merged union might "pull strings behind the scenes and direct the destinies of the nation" through a "ghost government." Indignantly Meany shot back: "No chance of that. I thought it was [Treasury Secretary George] Humphrey, [Commerce Secretary Sinclair] Weeks and [Defense Secretary Charles] Wilson who were doing that. If the N.A.M. philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss snapped, "involves no coercion. It is simply an exercise of our right not to work...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was stricken twelve years ago with angina pectoris, a condition less likely to cause permanent heart damage than coronary thrombosis. Weeks now considers himself fully recovered, works a five-day week from...