Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends...
...Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief appropriation bills, and by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, chairman of the House subcommittee on Relief...
JOHN O'CONNOR, member of Congress for over 15 years and chairman of the Rules Committee for four years, will resume the active general practice of law in Washington, D. C. and New York City, specializing as trial and appeal counsel and in practice before Government departments and commissions and in advising as to legislative matters. Associated with him will be JAMES P. DULLIGAN, former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, KERMIT F. KIP and J. DANIEL DOUGHERTY...
...photographer's cynosure all through 1938. In her unglamorous moments, she wears shell-rimmed spectacles and calls her mother, now Mrs. Frederic N. Watriss, "Mummie." In more typical moments, she led a night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...
Senator Ashurst, chairman of the Judiciary Committee: "Frankfurter in probably one of the most superb intellects in the country...