Word: connor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Byrns called on his Rules Committee to produce a parliamentary rule cutting short debate, forbidding any amendments to the bill except those proposed by the Appropriations Committee. Obligingly Rules Chairman John Joseph O'Connor drew up the necessary rule and took it to his committee. To his distress three of his nine Democratic committeemen balked strenuously for three reasons...
When other amendments were proposed from the floor, Congressman O'Connor took the gavel from Speaker Byrns's trembling hand, declared some of them out of order, let his colleagues defeat the rest with roars of "No." Then 329 Representatives gave the President his $4,000,000,000 "without strings." Of the 78 Representatives who voted "No" ten were Democrats including "Goober" Cox and four other Georgians, "Father-of-his-Country" Smith and two other Virginians...
ARTHUR C. O'CONNOR...
...Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt's onetime law partner). Finally he declared the whole New Deal fundamentally unworkable. After losing the election to Governor Lehman, Mr. Moses picked up where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year...
...eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents, one of the most unpopular members of a supposedly popular house...