Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purgee-designate was the man who has represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created...
...this meeting and several which followed the Janizaries decided, with Franklin Roosevelt's full knowledge and approval, that the Democratic ranks in Congress must be rid of unfaithfuls. that is, men like Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, which was just then holding up the Wages-&-Hours Bill a second time. Putting over a reform program in Congress without a thoroughly obedient majority was tedious if not impossible. The Florida and Oregon primaries were coming up. The Janizaries would teach Democrats unfaithful to the New Deal to watch their step. The Janiz ary James...
...Corcoran was born in Pawtucket, R. I. in 1900. His father's father was Irish (Presidential Purgee John J. and ex-Presidential Law Partner Basil O'Connor are distant Corcoran cousins). His mother's people were pre-Revolutionary New Englanders. His education, after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud...
Dockweiler of Los Angeles and six other candidates including pompous James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, onetime U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. As silvery of tongue as of hair, Mr. Olson first showed his political potency in 1934 when, as nominee for State Senator, he carried Los Angeles County by 400,000 votes while the rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control...
...York State last week by loud-mouthed Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens. The Conservative platform: the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, to fight Communism. Fascism, Naziism. C.I.O., American Labor Party and Franklin Roosevelt's intended "purge" of Democratic Representative John J. O'Connor. Heading a full State ticket as candidate for Governor is Conservative Harvey...