Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this important post there are two serious contenders. One is Tammany's John Joseph O'Connor of Manhattan, brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner, 13 years a member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should...
...other serious contender is Representative Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Tex. Mr. Rayburn, who will be 55 the day after the next Congress convenes, is ten years Mr. O'Connor's senior in point of service, but until recently far less known. The reason is that, although Bonham is approximately the same distance from Uvalde that Detroit, Mich, is from Washington, D. C., they are both in the same State and for many years Sam Rayburn was overshadowed by John Nance Garner. He was in fact one of Garner's able lieutenants. In the House he seldom makes...
...following have been appointed managers of the Winter Sports Lowell House teams: Charles W. O'Connor '37 (manager of basketball), Frank M. Sommers '37 (manager of squash), Colin D. Campbell '38 (manager of swimming), and Robert I. Gale, 2nd. '38, (manager of indoor baseball...
...laden with sandwiches, pie, doughnuts, coffee, pitchers of new cider pressed that day. In the dining room the table was covered with charts and tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with...
...putting FDIC signs on his tellers' windows the Government threatened to fine Banker Nichols $100 per day per window. Promptly, Banker Nichols threatened to close all but one window. In an expansive mood, he once began a letter to Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor: "Top o' the Mornin' to Ye, Mr. O'Connor! And 'twas with much interest that I be a readin' yours of the 22nd...