Word: smith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith Committee adroitly dodged challenging labor's rights or employers' wrongs. With its tongue in its cheek and its eye on the record, it examined the labor relations of the experts on labor relations, asked the old Roman Juvenal's question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" or Who will guard the "SG-&-SO" guardians...
...Smith Committee heard Joe Ozanic, president of A. F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers, bitterly proclaim that the Wagner Act and NLRB decisions had put thousands of Progressive miners under the jurisdiction of John Lewis' United Mine null They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitterly protesting an NLRB decision, but stating he would take no further action because he did not want to jeopardize his fine relations with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union...
...major sensations or scandals came out of Representative Smith's cool and detached political comedy; the Smith Committee, like a weary old cynic, only cast a jaundiced eye at the labor relations of these idealistic experts on labor relations. Humorless Labor Board members, forgetting industry's long complaints that Labor Board inquiries hampered work, fretted and fidgeted at the Smith investigation. It was a nuisance, they said, as irritable as captains of industry; it delayed the Labor Board's work...
...last week's opening there was as much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew a storm of applause for being both a good boompser and a good sport. A little later Funnyman Robert Benchley was presented with a live chicken, Little-Man-What-Next Billy Rose with a child's potty-chair...
...agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...