Word: connor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN O'CONNOR, member of Congress for over 15 years and chairman of the Rules Committee for four years, will resume the active general practice of law in Washington, D. C. and New York City, specializing as trial and appeal counsel and in practice before Government departments and commissions and in advising as to legislative matters. Associated with him will be JAMES P. DULLIGAN, former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, KERMIT F. KIP and J. DANIEL DOUGHERTY...
...important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation. Of three New Deal members of the committee, two went down to defeat like Mr. O'Connor, leaving Mr. Sabath alone. But five anti-New Deal Democrats -including Georgia's bitter Cox and loud Martin Dies of Texas-survived, and four...
...President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest Lindley, and his literary handy man, Samuel I. Rosenman; Frank C. Walker, former director of the National Emergency Council ; and the Archivist of the United States, Robert Digges Wimberly Connor; Presidential Friend Felix Frankfurter...
Keeping watch on bank accounting is the specific job of the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. Until recently, comptroller was bubbling J. F. T. O'Connor, who resigned to run for Governor of California. Mr. O'Connor's successor is Preston Delano, and banking gossip for several weeks has held that there would soon be a tightening of Federal supervision over Banker Giannini's finances. That A. P. himself smelled a mouse became clear last month when he startled the American Bankers Association convention by announcing that he was "fed up with some...
...police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro Henry Johnson, assistant director of C. I. O.'s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, said the union had been in hot water with Messrs. O'Connor and Henkle since last March, what with cops roughing up negotiating committees, thugs beating up officers...