Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Tobey, by underlining the absurdities of the Flynn and Brown testimonies and by keeping these witnesses from wandering off on philosophical tangents, did quite a bit to convince his colleagues that the evidence was featherweight. And Saltonstall in his introduction of Conant clearly stated the President's qualifications, both of experience and character. Of course, the committee's confirmation was finally unanimous, but just as important, the two senators convinced the committee that there was not the slightest doubt about its decision...
...committee held its hearings on the appointment of February 2 and 3. During that time it heard two witnesses against confirmation, one for it, and Conant himself. Appearing against Conant were Mrs. Beatrice Brown, chairman of the Women's Committee for Clean Government of New York and John T. Flynn, Boston journalist and radio commentator. The one witness for confirmation was Joseph M. Dawson executive director of the Public Affairs Committee of the Baptists of the United States...
...Flynn, the second witness against Conant, told the committee that in Germany, "where the agents of every important State are gathered, and where all sorts of social philosophers are scheming for the soul of Germany . . . (America needs) . . . as our representative some stout-hearted pragmatic American who believes in the American system, and not an agreeable philosopher who is talking about making over the American system...
Captain Bill Cleary of the freshmen scored three times, but his brother Bob Cleary of Belmont failed to solve the problem offered by goalie Charlie Flynn. It was Flynn's first shutout...
...Huntington has not been worrying too much about opponents goals. Goalie Charlie Flynn is in the unquestioned class with Cleary...