Word: comerford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to Manhattan, his job from part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...
...Worcester-born, a graduate of Holy Cross College and Harvard Law, Frank Dowd Comerford of Boston is called biggest and brightest of New England's younger utilities tycoons. President of New England Power Association, which controls a string of 50 gas and electric companies, he was designated spokesman for the industry when Governor Curley launched his drive against Massachusetts utility rates few weeks ago. Last week Utilitarian Comerford took over another big job when he was elected president of independent Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, New England's largest single operating electric utility. He will remain with...
...professional politicians, got his brother, William Goucher, appointed U. S. Marshal for Rhode Island. Boss Farley was reported to have said that Democrat Dowling could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross, Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh Democratic boss, and many another bigwig paid him tribute. The President sent a special message by Mr. Walker: "Please convey my best wishes . . . particularly...
Back in 1930, four men contributed $10,000 apiece to Franklin Roosevelt's campaign fund. They were Jesse Isidor Straus, William Woodin, Col. Edward Mandell House and Frank Comerford Walker. Mr. Straus has been made Ambassador to France. Mr. Woodin was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Col. House, who could not stand Washington's summer heat even when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, wanted no job for his contribution to the Roosevelt war chest. Neither, according to report, did rich, affable, unassuming Manhattan Lawyer Frank Walker, Anaconda Copper's lawyer. But because Mr. Walker...
...coaching will by that time be fully adapted to the ways of their new teacher. And as a final and tremendously important factor, it is essential that Bernie Rankin and Joe Johnson, big ends who are new at that job this year, will have come around under Charley Comerford's teaching until they are thoroughly used to the change...