Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whitehair's first step came in 1951 when he got himself named Under Secretary of the Navy on the recommendation of Harry Truman's crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance...
...Joseph M. Dawson, executive director of the Baptist Public Affairs Office in Washington, D.C., jumped to Conant's defense. He blasted a campaign against the retiring president "through the Church press...
...Conant's Boston speech has been continuously misconstrued by a minority group," he said. Dawson asserted that if the "divisive" controversy became the criterion of Conant's appointment. If would be "particularly unfortunate, since it would mean that sectarian interests would be allowed to control appointments to public office...
Doubleheader. In Honolulu, when Mrs. Warren B. Dawson rushed to help her husband who was grappling with a burglar in their darkened house, she swung twice with a chair, sent her husband to the hospital with lacerations, gave the burglar a brain concussion...
...would be no question about the outcome of this election. However, Eisenhower preferred not to be the political handmaid of a president who could call the Fullbright Report on RFC corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire the directors of the RFC, the Fullbright Report found, "recommended" many RFC loans which later went sour. This he did, the Report continued, on the advice of E. Merle Young, later indicted...