Word: connor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political crack-of-the-week was credited to Franklin Roosevelt, speaking apropos the Purge of New York's Representative O'Connor (see p. 12): "Harvard lost the schedule but won the Yale game...
...Alliance prod is political action. Last week David Lasser claimed large credit for purging Manhattan's Congressman John J. O'Connor (see p. 72). He cried: "Shall we engage in political activities? My fellow delegates, we are in political activities!'' Whereupon the convention offered its support to Franklin Roosevelt for a third term if he wants one and resolved: "Bread and Progress are of greater concern to us and to the American people as a whole than so-called traditions...
...these tasks looked more formidable than before. Senator George sounded almost as though he were issuing an ultimatum to Franklin Roosevelt when he gently said last week: "All great Democrats bow to the will of the people." Lacking only the outcome of the Purge v. John J. O'Connor of New York (this week), the one anti-Roosevelt Representative dignified with a place on the list, the whole Purge score stood last week as follows...
Careful to keep a protective New Deal coloration on his voting record, John O'Connor used his chief function-as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization...
Purge-sponsored candidate, selected by the New Deal's chief metropolitan patronage dispenser, Boss Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, was James Herbert Fay. Purgee O'Connor and Candidate Fay are to the naked eye as much alike as two Irish politicians, but Mr. Fay, unlike Mr. O'Connor, was born in the Gashouse, has lived there all his 39 years. Short, barrel-chested, he lost his left leg in the Argonne at 19, now gets about nimbly on an artificial one. President of Tammany's Anawanda Club, Jim Fay ran against John O'Connor...