WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt today, for the third time since he came into office, lost a battle with Congress over Federal appointments.
He bowed to the will of hostile legislators and organized labor and named William Morris Leiserson, 56, Chairman of the National Railroad Mediation Board, to the National Labor Relations Board succeeding Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania, a recess appointee who is persons non grata with the powerful American Federation of Labor and is in disfavor with a large segment of Congress.
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