Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluding, Rappaport called for definite changes within the political framework of municipal government; Phillips called for reform within city hall; while Halley demanded that business should come about to the understanding that good government is good business and that only qualified people should run for public office...
Senator Estes Kefauver may some day win the Presidency, Rudolph Halley intimated in an interview last night. Halley also praised Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Newbold Morris, newly appointed assistant Attorney General...
...Halley was chief counsel for the Truman Committee investigating war frauds in 1944. In 1950 he became head investigator for the Kefauver Crime Committee. When these two posts were called to his attention. Halley smiled broadly and said. "When I work for a man, then he becomes President. Not always in a year, though." He quickly added. "I'm not speaking of the 1952 election...
...Halley spoke of Stevenson as having the reputation of a "crime fighter." He farther volunteered. "He has won the admiration of all political parties in Illinois...
...Halley said that corruption may be an important issue in the coming election, but that this was hard to judge now. It depends upon what happens in the next few months, he declared...