Word: donahey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Vic Donahey's majority (5 Democrats, 1 Republican) : "the main purposes of the TVA act have been honestly and efficiently performed . . . [Dr. Morgan's charges] are without foundation, not supported by evidence, and made without due consideration of the facts...
...practical solution was to make three new judicial appointments which: i) pointedly disregarded the Senate, and 2) made it tough for Senators to complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former...
...good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing...
...Senator Donahey, consenting, furnished Accountant Conick with the same powers of access to TVA records and witnesses as the committee's other experts. As private utilitarians cheered this new guarantee of an ice-cold view of TVA, Senator Davis publicly declared...
Evidently stirred by Senator Davis' activity, Chairman Donahey traveled at week's end to Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee's secretary, long a topflight aide of such employers as General Motors, National Cash Register, the British Treasury...