Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis Jerome Crowley...
...third transfusion was to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As its head, the President named another onetime Missourian-Maple T. Harl, 52, now a Denver banker. Both he and Martin succeed Leo T. Crowley, who was head of both institutions until he resigned to return to private business...
Moreover, the President had let tried and experienced men such as Economic Stabilizer Will Davis and FEA Boss Leo Crowley slip out of the Government just when he most needed men with governmental training and background...
After attending his last Cabinet meeting, Banker Crowley admitted that he would attend no more Anglo-American talks. Of the President, he said: "We have always seen eye to eye." Then he strode off, a little stiffly, to devote himself to his job as Board Chairman of Standard Gas & Electric at a reported salary of $75,000 a year...
...chair was vacant. President Truman had accepted Crowley's resignation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although he had been much less sympathetic to the British case than the other U.S. negotiators, the British did not welcome Crowley's departure. They feared Crowley, the martyr, would make more trouble on Capitol Hill than Crowley, the negotiator, would ever have made...