Word: elected
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Your main article under "The Nation" in the Dec. 19 issue has left me quite appalled. You note random thoughts of the President-elect in regard to the mistakes made by his predecessors. I feel that I as the daughter of Mr. William H. Woodin must go to bat for a great American who gave his life for his country and now cannot speak for himself. The events and history of the late 1920s and of the early 1930s prove, I am sure, the worthiness of the former Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had known...
...House Office Buildings were warrens of chaos, as defeated Congressmen took their time about moving out and their successors queued up impatiently to move in. Last week 55 Congressmen-elect drew lots for new office suites (Pennsylvania Republican Dick Schweiker, drawing Lot No. 55, found there was no more space available, will have to wait until an office can be found). The quest for jobs on the Hill was becoming frantic. Surprisingly, many of the most anxious Capitol job seekers were Democrats: with 45 new Republican representatives, and only 18 new Democrats, a few secretaries of outgoing Democratic Congressmen were...
...after cantankerous Congressman John Rooney got home to Brooklyn from an "inspection trip" of Latin American embassies, he got an important telephone call. "John," crooned Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson to the chairman of a House subcommittee that handles State Department funds, "the President-elect would like to see you down in Palm Beach next week. Can you make it?" When Rooney allowed that he could indeed, Lyndon Johnson made his own plans to be there too. To muddy up the purpose of the trip, he brought along Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, Johnson's probable successor as chairman...
Last week Landis submitted to the President-elect a stingingly frank 87-page report charging "inordinate delay" in cases before the regulatory agencies, "deterioration"' in the quality of personnel, total lack of coordination among the various agencies, and undue influence by lawyers and lobbyists serving clients with pending cases.* Among Landis' complaints: Civil Aeronautics Board is so bogged down in "wasteful" procedures that it takes an average of 32 months to get a case decided...
...Here Comes Jânio," cried the cam paign slogan of President-elect Jânio Quadros. Last week Brazilians wondered if the slogan might better read: "There Went Jânio." Shortly after his election last October...