Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treasure Trove. Standard plot for thrillers since Treasure Island is two bitterly hostile groups of adventurers competing to discover and carry off a fabulous hoard of pirate treasure. Such was the plot which Representative O'Connor's House Rules Committee and Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Senate Lobby Investigating Committee were playing, with the testimony of Howard Colwell Hopson as the Treasure Trove. The steps by which the ambitious rivals reached their present state of front page enmity...
...Representative O'Connor's investigation of lobbying for and against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...
...Same day Representative O'Connor moved to get his investigation afoot with a $50,000 appropriation for expenses, Senator Black demanded $150,000 for a job that would throw the House show into the shade. To even matters, Senator Black got only a third of what he asked...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
When, after such proceedings, Witness Hopson fell into his hands, Chairman O'Connor naturally was in no mood to share his treasure with his rival. But no sooner had Mr. Hopson begun his testimony before the House Rules Committee (TIME, Aug. 19) than Senator Black tried to steal him. The first attempt to serve a Senate subpena was foiled by Representative O'Connor's agents, who surrounded Witness Hopson as he left the hearing, ganged the Senate process server. Next time Representative O Connor had Witness Hopson on the stand, he found him just as affable as at the first...