Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most was that almost all the talk came from Democrats. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey was suddenly not as enthusiastic about the nominations as he had been. Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney asked, incredulously, whether the Senate would "vote blindly about so important a matter. . . ." Connecticut's Francis Maloney took another tack: "There may not be any brighter or better men than these. On the other hand, there might...
...week the Senate Military Affairs Committee skillfully frisked the records of Franklin Roosevelt's two appointees to the Surplus Property Board, only to come up emptyhanded. There was no skulduggery, the Senators agreed, in the business dealings of thin, sharp-nosed Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, or of Connecticut's moon-faced ex-Governor. Robert A. Hurley. From this standpoint, both were qualified for the big job of disposing of an estimated total of $75,000,000,000 in surplus U.S. war property...
...routine fashion, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate the names of two appointees to the new Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...
Autumn had been unseasonably warm. But last week snow fell-in Connecticut and Wyoming. It also fell on the western front-on the Allies and the enemy, on the trucks and tanks, the artillery and the infantry, on the homeless living and on the uncaring dead...
Result: in Connecticut's Fourth District she probably piled up a bigger vote than any previous candidate of any party. The total vote for Congress was 204,507. Her winning margin was narrow-2,013. A freshman Congresswoman had passed over to the old campaigner's ranks...