Word: donahey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles...
Died. Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey, 72, Ohio's sphinxlike former Democratic Governor (1923-29) and U.S. Senator (1935-41), who made a fetish of honesty, political capital of silence; of a rare, tropical blood disease; in Columbus, Ohio...
...Franklin Roosevelt, "Honest Vic" has been for much of his 40-year official life the best all-around Democratic vote-getter. A ball of fire on the stump, old-timer Donahey has not once opened his jaws oratorically in the Senate since he was sworn in. A great believer in laissez-faire, a fanatic devotee of fishing in times of legislative crisis, "Honest Vic" thinks everybody talks too much. If Senators were graded like schoolboys, he would rate: diligence, fair; deportment, awful; attendance, terrible; common sense...
...chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...
...quality Vic Donahey has in fullest measure: political sensitivity. He always ran to win. Thus when he retired from public life "for a much-needed rest and the preservation of my health," every political cynic in the U. S. recalled his perfect health, unkindly footnoted: "Rest from what?" Consensus was: "Honest Vic" thinks Ohio is lost to the Democrats this fall, whether or not Franklin Roosevelt runs...