Word: donahey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Morgan's time came. A Congressional joint committee of five members from each house, headed by Ohio's affable, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
Most Senators and Representatives critical of the President's Supreme Curt Plan and labor policies attended, for not to attend, barring a good excuse, was tantamount to a break with the New Deal. Among absentees were Senators Glass, George, Burke, Gerry, Sheppard, Copeland, King, Donahey, Holt, Bilbo...
...from my car and another behind a rock nearby, both with rifles pointed on us. ... I became resigned to the situation." Aboard a launch on his way to the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds off Solomons Island, Md., Ohio's husky, 63-year-old Senator Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was standing beside the small mast when it was struck by lightning. Knocked unconscious for half an hour, the Senator was badly burned on the hands...
...elected to the House from Ohio. He proved able and was placed on the Ways & Means Committee. Last summer his promising career was cut short when the New Deal picked him as a candidate to run in the Democratic primaries for Senator in Ohio. After Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey had handily carried off the honors, the New Deal gratefully found Charles West an $8,000 job as assistant to Governor William I. Myers in the Farm Credit Administration. He still holds that office but last week he was promoted to an unofficial position best described as "Chief Lobbyist...