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Career. A lawyer (corporations, estates), he has been elected to three public offices (Ohio State Representative 1921-26; State Senator 1931-32; U.S. Senator, 1938, re-elected 1944). He was defeated for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940 by Wendell Willkie. He has been de facto leader of the Senate on domestic affairs since January...
...Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard, 32, who is researching Old Gaelic at Yale; Robert Jr., 30, Cincinnati lawyer; Lloyd Bowers, 25, a reporter on the Cincinnati Times-Star; Horace Dwight, 22, student at Yale. All four sons served in World War II. Church: Low-church Episcopalian...
That night he got down to work on ECA's program. He was embarrassed by his lack of information. He made a frantic telephone call for help to his close friend Maurice T. Moore, Manhattan lawyer and Studebaker director...
...Statler, the common denominator busily multiplied himself. Will Clayton arrived for lunch to give him much-needed advice on how to set up a Government bureau-in this case one of the most prodigious bureaus in history. Lawyer "Tex" Moore arrived. He and Hoffman sallied forth for a conference with John Steelman. They returned to the Statler. State Department officials arrived with sheafs of reports, requisitions, and advice on what phases of the interim program needed immediate action...
Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who thinks (or says he thinks) that Greece has nothing to fear from Russian aggression, got a dose of Greek history last week. At a Washington banquet of the Greek fraternal order of Ahepa, Manhattan Lawyer Dean Alfange dusted off the story of Aeschines (389-314 B.C.), an apologist for Philip of Macedon. Said Alfange : "Today .. . Philip is Joe Stalin and I don't need to tell you who Aeschines...