Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police Chief John J. O'Connor of St. Paul, Minn, was an extremely practical criminologist. At the turn of the Century he let the word quietly pass around the Midwest's underworld that St. Paul offered sanctuary for crooks who were "hot" elsewhere so long as they behaved themselves decently within the city limits. This easy-going relationship lasted a generation, and the O'Connor tradition did not die when he did in 1924. Such latter-day bad men as the late Homer Van Meter and "Machine Gun" Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat...
Banker Nichols' pet New Deal aversion is Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. His bank is the only one of 6,000 Federal Reserve members which has never paid an FDIC assessment. Last week Banker Nichols received a letter from Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor reminding him that the deposit insurance law becomes permanent June 30. Offering Comptroller O'Connor his compliments and a "one-way ticket to Dante's Inferno," Banker Nichols replied...
...White House he called Speaker Byrns, House Rules Chairman O'Connor, acting Floor Leader Taylor, Ways & Means Chairman Doughton, laid down the political law to them. They told him what he could not expect the House to do. He told them, with considerable desk pounding, what the House was going to do. The Democratic Congress, he assured them knowingly, would not say anything could not be done, if the Democratic President said it had to be done...
...Connor, O. Paul, R. Paull, S. R. Payson, D. Rhodes, H. P. Roosevelt, K. Roosevelt, M. Rudensey, L. L. Sargent, E. D. Savage, G. K. Scott, J. L. Senior, E. N. Silverman, D. A. Sistare, A. R. Snell, D. B. Straus, W. P. Swett, R. B. Trainer, R. A. Uihlein, S. Vincent, O. J. Van Dyk, S. Ware, B. G. Weil, B. Welles, R. E. Wernick, S. Wessler, E. F. Whitney, R. D. Wilder, G. Winter, H. Wood, B. Yucht...
...CONNOR...