Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little doubt that Congress could get action from a public which had sent more than 200 pairs of babies' booties to Senator Elbert Thomas, containing such notes as "I miss my daddy." Every G.I. had the sympathy of the home folks. Everyone thought someone else should...
...question was now before a three-man Senate subcommittee, aided by two of the smartest, fastest-stepping officers going: Major General Lauris Norstad and Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford. The first sessions were passionless, devoted to broad principles and academic details. Utah's professorial Elbert Thomas took a phrase from the preamble to the Constitution to name the unified war machine the "Department of Common Defense." The dogfighting would come when Airman Radford and Airman Norstad tangled over the disposition of the Navy's land-based air forces. Even so, the bill should be ready in six weeks...
...President's proposal for fact-finding and cooling-off periods in labor disputes, none could be called a reactionary. Montana's James E. Murray opposed it because his view coincides with the C.I.O.'s, whose leaders are solidly against the measure. Utah's scholarly Elbert D. Thomas, a painstaking legislator, likes to think twice before he makes a law. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, one of the heroes of the old anti-isolationist debates, thought "fact-finding" did not go far enough, that unions must be made more responsible...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
...talked about upcoming legislation with Utah's Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Kentucky's Representative Andrew May. He talked (upcoming politics, presumably) with Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...