Word: connor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned...
...from holding office or taking an active part in the foundation, but hinted that he might like to become its head after leaving the White House. The Foundation's personnel was not disclosed last week, but it was generally supposed that Keith Morgan and Basil O'Connor, both top men at Warm Springs, would occupy high posts...
...represented by John Briggs III, Albert E. Brunelli, John F. Casey, Wallace H. Cox, Edwin C. Davis, Joseph Franklin, John H. Hewitt, John F. P. Hill, Shepard Jerome, Jay W. Kaufmann, Richard G. Labovitz, Francis X. Leary, Lawrence H. Marcus, Joseph F. Nee, William P. O'Connor, Jr., Edward H. Osgood, Jr., Philip N. Stamas, Robert Sullivan, Alfred M. Torrielli
...atrocious. First day's catch was one bass and "two miserable what-nots," one of which attached itself to the Presidential line. Next day's was just as bad. The third day of the cruise, when the President's onetime law partner Basil O'Connor joined the party, there was no fishing at all. Stormbound and anchored off Block Island, the President resigned himself to a press conference. Fourth day, en route back to Hyde...
Although Harvey O'Connor assiduously notes scandals in connection with Guggenheim labor, politics, financing, the general impression communicated by The Guggenheims is that the family comes off better than do the principals of most comparable studies of recent years. What takes the curse off their name seems to be less Guggenheim philanthropy (the $7,000,000 Guggenheim Fund for needy artists, writers and scholars, the $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a dozen others) than a general Guggenheim picturesqueness. When Simon was accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done...