Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor, the President's onetime law partner; that Elliott Roosevelt flew to Miami to see his father aboard the Nourmahal and thence to Washington where he told Reed at breakfast in the White House...
...team: g., Briggs; rf., Gosline; lf., Sheridan; rh., O'Connor; lh., L. Burbank; ro., Parsons; ri., Witkin; c., Whittemore; li., Arrowsmith, Grandin; lo., Rabenold...
Early comers had been spooked by the knowledge that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, and RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, still convalescent after his air-crash shake-up three months ago, were all in San Francisco. Of these, only Jesse Jones was slated to address the convention but rumor had it that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California...
...Washington Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor got into the fight by pointing out that since March 1933 only eight national banks had failed, that on Sept. 28 it would be a whole year since one had closed its doors. In Brooklyn, however, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Boss of the Union Party, loudly bawled that the principal U. S. banks are already "busted...
...modern political upheavals have given rise to as many works of fiction as the civil war in Ireland in 1919-21. With novels by such varied talents as Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Peadar O'Donnell, Sean O'Faolain dramatizing different aspects of the struggle, followers of Irish literature may occasionally get the impression that the entire Republican Army was made up of accomplished novelists whose stories were better than their strategy. Of this talented crew, Sean O'Faolain has recently emerged as one of the best novelists in the ranks of fighters...