Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark days of the 1933 bank holiday, President Roosevelt installed in the office of Comptroller of the Currency an inconspicuous lawyer named James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor. Jefty did not know much about banking, as he readily admitted, but he had dabbled in enough other professions to give him a deft versatility. As a politician he was defeated for the North Dakota Governorship In 1920, but got into the Legislature. As a lawyer he was sharp enough to become the partner of William Gibbs McAdoo in California, where Jefty moved in 1925. As a Democrat...
BOOM TOWN-Jack O'Connor-Knopf...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...
...should finance a new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The event's organizers expect to raise $3,000,000, none of which will go to Georgia Warm Springs, but to research. Nominal head of the new organization is the President's onetime law partner, Basil O'Connor, who enthusiastically declared: "We could use the entire mint in this work and produce 10,000 Warm Springs." Actual head is Keith Morgan, good Roosevelt friend, glib insurance agent with a big-business clientele. Most of the trustees and directors of the new enterprise are businessmen. In the list...
Builder. Psychologist Johnson O'Connor, who started with astronomical and mathematical research and was a metallurgist before he became interested in industrial personnel problems, is director of the "Human Engineering Laboratory" in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. N. J. From testing 20,000 students, businessmen, professional workers, people in all walks of life, he has concluded that "an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic which the Human Engineering Laboratory has been able to isolate and measure." His laboratory has just published the Johnson...