Word: hoey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless the House promptly approved a bill to increase the limit. But the Senate balked. More than five hours of briefing and pleading by Humphrey and Dodge changed few, if any, minds in the Senate Finance Committee. North Carolina's Clyde Hoey bluntly told Humphrey that, if the Administration had known on July 1 that an increase in the debt limit was necessary, it should have told Congress on July 2, not waited until the last minute. Senators were sore about the delay, especially since they suspected that the Administration had deliberately waited until appropriations bills were passed...
...None of My Worries." Frock-coated Chairman Clyde Hoey responded gallantly: one of the committee (Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy) had expressed the hope that she would state her telephone number as well as address. Oilboat Olga smiled as though North Carolina's Hoey had given her the Hope Diamond to use as a paperweight. She answered all the committee's, questions. She was born in a part of Austria-Hungary which is now Czechoslovakia, came to the U.S. in 1939. She was married to a wealthy, Norwegian-born shipping man named Magnus Konow...
...averaged between 25 and 40 Congressmen and about five Senators a night." Among Billy's greatest supporters were Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly: "You're certainly rockin' the old Capitol...
...Hoey Committee (Senate) has become the biggest watchdog on corruption in federal executive departments. Under North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, helped especially by Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and California's Dick Nixon, the committee last year exposed Bill Boyle and the American Lithofold Corp. This year, fortified with a $100,000 budget and eight investigators, it will tackle the sale of tankers by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to the American Overseas Tanker Corp., then headed by Joseph E. Casey, onetime Congressman from Clinton, Mass. It will also delve further into the activities...
McCarthy the investigator took his place in the Senate hearing room where the Hoey subcommittee, of which he is a member, grilled Bill Boyle. McCarthy was stern with witnesses. "Don't be coy with me," he snapped at Boyle's friend Max Siskind. But in mid-session, McCarthy had to leave. "I happen to be testifying myself," he explained...