Word: connor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, Chairman Thomas V. O'Connor, of the Shipping Board, denounced this as Rotterdamaging "foreign' propaganda" put forth (he said) for ulterior purposes in a foreign rate war. Even when the sales are effected-probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years...
Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board said: "The amount missing is negligible. I consider the story another bit of British propaganda against American shipping. The figure of $500,000 was set by British newspaper men who were absolutely in no position to state the amount supposed to have been stolen...
...Ensconced at the Hotel Ambassador, Manhattan, last week, was that genial Irish devotee of snuff, the Rt. Hon. Thomas Power O'Connor, famed "Father of the House of Commons," who arrived recently for a vacation in the U. S. (TIME, March...
...Returning to the nub, it became evident last week that legislation must be enacted to supplant the present grandiloquently named but impotent British Board of Film Censors, chairmanned by famed "Tay Pay" O'Connor, now vacationing in the U. S. (TIME, March 5). The Board possesses no legal jurisdiction, but by commercial agreement its recommendations are obeyed in the numerous theatres of the British Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association...
...Sailing toward the U. S. last week, aboard the Cunarder Berengaria, was the famed "Father of the House of Commons," Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, aged 80, and still the most vigorously picturesque journalist-parliamentarian in England...