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...learn firsthand the story of Errett-Lobban Cord's emergence as a Nevada politician, TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch flew into Reno, got the onetime auto tycoon's consent to a half-hour interview. But the meeting continued 5½ hours because Cord, now an Esmeralda County rancher, discovered that McCulloch had been raised on a ranch in Nevada's Lyon County. For what Returning Native McCulloch learned, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The New-Model Cord...
...chapel made Kansas' Republican Congressman Errett Scrivner. a minister's son and a Purple Heart veteran of the 35th Division in World War I. acutely unhappy. He called it an "aluminum monstrosity" that "will look like a row of polished tepees upon the side of the mountains," and proposed that the appropriation of $3.000,000 be sharply cut. New Jersey's Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, a veteran of World War II and the Korean war, disagreed, crying that airmen "fight and die in aluminum planes. They can worship in aluminum if they...
House Minority Leader Joe Martin rose amid the high jinks to remind Democratic colleagues that Republicans in the old days never hesitated to cut Democratic budgets: "We did not dodge our responsibility. We cut the budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids...
...golden boys in the Golden Twenties, none glittered brighter than a fast-talking, fast-thinking young empire builder named Errett Lobban Cord. At one time or another, Cord had control of New York Shipbuilding, Stinson Aircraft, American Airways, and Auburn Automobile Co., which built the Cord car, now a highly prized collector's item among classic-car buffs. In the great Depression, Automan Cord's empire dissolved. Since then, he has been living quietly in Nevada, making money in real estate and serving as a state senator. Last week Automan Cord was back making the kind of glamorous...
Economy-minded Kansas Congressman Errett P. Scrivner, 56, chairman of the Subcommittee on Air Force Appropriations, had a different view. He heard, he said, that Government supplies were being expended at the races. Moreover, some airmen complained that they were forced to take blocks of tickets and to work "voluntary" extra duty. Republican Scrivner, an old artillery file (he served in World War I in the 129th Field Artillery, Captain Harry Truman's outfit), asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week he released its report, a sharp strafing of LeMay's position...