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...Difficult It Is." Instantly Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney was on his feet. As chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which had pored over the bill for twelve weeks, he would be the first to agree that there might be waste, said O'Mahoney unctuously. "But I should not like to have any person reading the Congressional Record tomorrow morning gather from what my friend from Illinois has said that the men in uniform . . . are willfully making more mistakes than those which are made by all human beings...
...never thought of. It is as closely guarded a secret as atomic weapons, but it will cost nothing like as much to produce . . ." Did the knowledge of the new weapons have anything to do with passage of the $5 billion? "Of course," said Subcommittee Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. South Carolina's Burnet Maybank added a slight damper. Appropriations for "the weapons," he said, were "small compared to $5 billion." Most of the money in the $5 billion item was specifically ticketed for direct expansion of U.S. air power-to increase the Navy...
...Presented Democratic Senators Joseph O'Mahoney and Lester Hunt with something new in the way of White House mementos: brier pipes with bowls carved into likenesses of the presidential countenance-bifocals...
...luncheon to announce his latest stake in it, some of Wall Street's most potent bankers attended: Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, J. P. Morgan's Henry C. Alexander, National City's Howard C. Shepherd. So did a New Dealer, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, a friend of Spencer's Wyoming days. Spencer's news made both bankers and New Dealer applaud...
...Merlin Bishop of Avon, international representative of the United Auto Workers, C.I.O.; Carl A. Gray of Farmington, manufacturer of electronics equipment; Mrs. Robert Mahoney of Hartford, trustee of the University of Connecticut; Mrs. Clifford F. Thompson of Wallingford, onetime state president of the P.T.A...