Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into the hands of Howard Colwell ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, missing master of Associated Gas & Electric Co. (TIME, July...
Chairman O'Connor had been tipped off first. In the course of some routine questioning before his committee, A. G. & E. Representative Bernard B. Robinson had revealed that only the previous night he had talked at the Shoreham with the man whom most of the U. S. Government had been hunting for three weeks...
...What kind of a looking man is Hopson?" asked Chairman O'Connor, who lives at the Shoreham...
...intend to miss him either," growled Chairman O'Connor. "We intend to have him here in about 20 minutes...
...admitted expenditures of $700,000 to defeat the Public Utility Bill were $92,000 short of the mark. Among those reported to have had A. G. & E. retainers: the law firms of Patrick J. Hurley, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, and of Basil O'Connor, onetime partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor, each...