Word: chip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence Wood Robert Jr. was a Monticello, Ga. boy who studied at Georgia Tech, became a construction engineer. Always known as "Chip" Robert (because his father was "Wood" Robert), he set up his own firm in 1917, devoted himself to the task of industrializing the South. In the 23 years since then, Robert & Co. has done over $500,000,000 worth of business, designing textile mills and schools, putting up public buildings...
...Chip Robert met Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. In 1932, Chip Robert met Jim Farley at the Dem ocratic Convention in Chicago. In 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, Chip Robert got a job as assistant to Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin in charge of public works...
Soon Honest Harold Ickes, Public Works Administrator, got the idea that too many fat contracts were going to Robert & Co., and Henry Morgenthau (who succeeded Woodin) relieved Assist ant Robert of all but a few routine duties. Then newshawks caught Chip Robert and his wife-to-be, Evelyn Walker Robinson, at a dinner party given by a lobbyist for Utilityman Howard Hopson. Five months later Chip resigned...
...small part of Chip's success is due to Evie Robert, his second wife, a stun ning blonde, tall, blue-eyed and smart. She loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into...
...popped New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges next day to demand that Chip Robert resign at once, that the Attorney General investigate the contracts...