Word: haney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There followed rumpus, ruction and defiance. Mr. Haney refused to resign. While he was marshaling his explanations for so refusing, observers harked far back into the tangled muddle of Government shipping affairs...
...Haney, however, did not stop at snubs or defiance. He flatly contradicted the President. In recalling to Mr. Coolidge their discussion on the eve of his reappointment to the Board by the President (he had formerly been appointed by President Harding) Mr. Haney's letter continued...
They recalled that Bert E. Haney, Oregon Democrat, was first appointed a Shipping Board Commissioner by President Harding in June, 1923, and that President Coolidge reappointed him last June for another two years on a "recess appointment," which will lapse if not confirmed by the Senate, when it meets in December. They recalled that the U. S. Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration...
...this phase of the situation which gave Mr. Haney a pretext to bandy words with the President, in his refusal to resign, as few would have dared. Mr. Haney's refusal, in part...
...There certainly was no express understanding [ i. e. arrived at between the President and Mr. Haney] concerning the continuance in office or the removal of President Palmer. . . I myself had definitely advised you that I could not accept a reappointment if any conditions whatever attached to that reappointment. . . I did not intend to lead you, directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that I would be a party to continuing Mr. Palmer as President of the Fleet Corporation...