Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work resigned because he is 69 and his post is an empty honor. What he wanted out of the Hoover victory was not office (although Postmaster Generalship had been offered him) but power. As National Republican Chairman he yearned to sit at the jobbery turnstile passing his favorites through to their patronage rewards. And to satisfaction of this desire he felt himself entitled, for it was he, the Colorado doctor and Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope...
With characteristic independence, President Hoover will pick Dr. Work's successor. Possibilities: Secretary of War James William Good; Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee; National Committee Vice-chairman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon; National Committee Secretary Franklin William Fort of New Jersey; National Committee General Counsel James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania...
Problem. What he is up against is an official figure of 1,132,300 men out of work as of May 27, 1929, an increase in a fortnight of more than 27,000 unemployed...
...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...
...cramped though that life is, it is also a busy one. Up with the six o'clock-rising mountain eagles, King Zog sips steaming hot Turkish coffee, puffs on a Turkish cigaret, begins his day's work. From then on, except for ten minutes' exercise every two hours, he is at his desk in one of the palaces until midnight. His chief diversion is listening to U. S. phonograph records, played on a U. S. phonograph...