Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only administrator with a previously expressed opinion on Council reorganization is Dean Monro, who favors a plan similar to the one proposed by Dunster Hose Committee chairman William E. Bailey '62, a member of the current committee...
During that same morning, O'Brien heard warnings, gave orders and expressed gratitude in a dozen other telephone calls; he talked to Congressmen, lobbyists, Democratic National Chairman John Bailey and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Between calls, he raced downstairs three times for quick conferences with President Kennedy. Then he was off to Capitol Hill for a meeting with Lyndon Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield in the Vice President's office. After lunching on the run, O'Brien talked to a dozen Congressmen, examined the fever charts of a dozen pending bills. Returning...
...Brien has followed that advice-up to a point. Officially, patronage is left to Democratic National Committee Chairman John Bailey, who works in consultation with O'Brien Staffman Dick Donahue. But O'Brien knows well that patronage is still a potent political instrument; he makes recommendations to Bailey on major appointments, and his suggestions receive top-priority consideration. Thus, when the 14 members of the Italian-American congressional bloc threatened to vote against the Administration's feed-grains bill just to demonstrate their power, O'Brien quickly found out what was on their minds...
...Congressmen now know that, although John Bailey is the nominal dangler of political plums, O'Brien is really the man to see when they have a patronage problem...
...promote the Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Grower, the farm-bred New York girls exhibited their tresses, totaling 36 ft. 10 in. in length, at a Barnum & Bailey sideshow. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody "partnerized" with Dr. David Franklin Powell, alias "White Beaver," to promote Yosemite Yarrow for the cramps; Wonder Worker, to be taken internally for cholera but externally for rheumatism; and Cough Cream, which, it was claimed, "heals diseased lungs...