Word: harley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They had already read too many. All week long, Democrats and Republicans had exchanged a futile barrage of charges and countercharges. Republicans accused the President of attempting to set up full wartime powers to use at his own discretion. The G.O.P., snapped West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley Kilgore, was "rushing to a three-alarm fire with a garden hose...
...chief municipal interest among the groups called into question was the Samuel Adams School of 37 Province Street, near City Hall. Director Harrison L. Harley, "a Harvard philosophy Ph.D." as he pointed out last night, cited several University faculty members who had given courses at the modest institution...
...present a trustee of the School, and now in Prague, professor of History F. O. Matthiessen was described by Harley as "the most active...
...show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
Last week the court-martial acquitted Little of all charges. But the case did not die there. Some veterans' organizations raised the familiar charge that Navy courts-martial have one brand of justice for enlisted men and another for fellow officers. West Virginia's Senator Harley M. Kilgore and New York's Democratic Representative Donald O'Toole demanded that the secret record of the proceedings be opened up for congressional inspection. Said Kilgore: "Such [secret] trials may be necessary in wartime, but they certainly are contrary to our peacetime ideas of justice...