Word: bailey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straggler Bailey of North Carolina, Commerce Committee chairman, the neutrality bill's virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
Dunster's chief hope lies in Red Bailey, end and full-back of the all-House team last year, while the Bunnies are pinning their hopes on Harry Burgess, another of last year's all-stars...
...Eric Baker, Robert Mackenzie Betz, Joseph Smith Bigelow, III, Robert Armistead Wooldridge Brauns, John William Buddenberg, John Darr Calhoun, Neil Burton Carson, Joel Cohen, Eliot Jerome Connor, Paul Wentworth Cook, Richard Ansel Craig, Frank Erskine Crawford, Jr., Robert Grimes Vincent Dallahan, Frank Dardeno, Philip Davis, William Benjamin Deyo, Joseph Bailey Dillon, Joseph Platt Downer, Ed- ward Thomas Downing, William Charles Dutton...
...jumped North Carolina's Bailey, old enemy of the Administration. Bailey asked Key Pittman, in the chair, if it would be out of order for him to call "Pepper's remarks 'cowardly and mendacious.' " Assured that it would, he snapped: "Then I will so characterize it to his face," stalked...
...shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler, Nebraska's Burke, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey-Democrats...