Word: delahunt
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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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...