Word: flanagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Intimates. On the list of "key officials" who received the money were eight names, all of men close to Stevenson. His $1,500-a-year publicity man, William I. Flanagan, assigned to build the governor into national prominence, had received almost half of the fund: $7,900. Others on the list: Legal Counsel Carl McGowan, $3,000; Insurance Director Day and Welfare Director Hoehler, $2,000 each; ex-Finance Director Mitchell and State Police Superintendent Thomas J. O'Donnell, $1,000 each; Administrative Assistant Lawrence Irvin, $750; Justice Schaefer...
...governor's office at Springfield, Press agent William Flanagan handed out photostatic copies of Adlai Stevenson's income-tax returns for the last ten years. Reporters dug through them, found no startling news. Adlai Stevenson is (just barely) a millionaire. In 1951, his returns from investments totaled $46,040.94. Although the returns did not disclose the fact, Stevenson's biggest source of income is his 25% interest, which he inherited, in the Bloomington (Ill.) Daily Pantagraph. His ten-year income: $500,046. His ten-year federal income...
...modest one-$6,000 to start boys' clubs in five of the schools. Soon it began to expand. It started buying up vacant lots for playgrounds, set up a Health Center where any child under 14 could get a free examination. On the advice of the late Father Flanagan of Boys Town, it started a "Big Brother" program to provide volunteer "fathers" and "brothers" to 500 boys a year. It also set up 26 "Stepping Stone Clubs," where girls can gather and learn about everything from making a bed to making a lasting marriage...
...friendship for Fleisher and had been paid nothing for their pains. But, just as quickly, Shaver turned in a terse resignation to the Senate Small Business Committee. It was accepted immediately. Flo flew back from a vacation at her Kentucky farm to face the preliminary inquiries of Counsel Francis Flanagan of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. She then had an hour-long interview with her boss, Alben Barkley...
...congressional fire last week for handling its recruiting program with a pressagent's instead of a soldier's touch. To get volunteers, the services had spent $1,128,175 in the fiscal year 1951 for such unmilitary radio & TV shows as roller-derbies, The Shadow, and Ralph Flanagan's band. For 1952, the recruiters had signed up Singer Frankie Laine ($434,602), a weekly football game ($117,166), and a 15-minute weekly Bill Stern sportcast ($254,867). Just what, asked Vermont's Senator George Aiken, did all this outlay "have to do with the work...