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...Margaret Teahan is still kept busy denying that she ever said, "He [Frank] looks more like Jesus every day." About him Washington has had a hard time making up its official mind, with admirers retelling stories of the goodness of his heart, his piety, his patience during the sit-down strikes, his liberalism, his bushy eyebrows, his devotion to President Roosevelt, while detractors remembered his complexity, moodiness, the tales of his self-righteousness and his habit of suddenly drifting off during a conversation, staring moodily into space. Because he taught law for five years at the University of Detroit, made...
...industry, agriculture, labor, were equally subjects of inquiry along with Communists. Nobody confused this argument quite so badly as excitable, suspicious Martin Dies. To New Dealers this was just part of a "smear Roosevelt" campaign, dangerous in campaigns like the one in Michigan, where the Dies inquiry into sit-down strikes helped defeat Governor Murphy for reelection...
...place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took the assistant out to a park bench and sat there with him until the raise went through...
...Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came to power: Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. Socialists and Communists gave him day-by-day support, but it was easy to see that the Popular Front's days were numbered. Edouard Daladier...
...national director of the Writers' Project was accused by one of his erstwhile supervisors of inspiring a sit-down strike in which some 200 literary WPA-sters seized and held the writers' headquarters in Manhattan...