Word: delahunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-thatched Carl Raymond Gray, who at 70 retired last year from the presidency of the Union Pacific and is famed for his modernization of that big line, his benevolent relations with employes. The others who attended were ICC Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President Henry Bruere of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
Instigator of the I. C. C. decision is Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, 47. Serving his first year on the Commission, he plotted the pool plan. When the McNamara brothers were accused of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, Commissioner Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made...