Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year before World War I got going, tall, dignified Albert V. Moore, socialite, and squat, jib-nosed Emmet J. McCormack, ex-tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its first ship for $90,000 (cash: $15,000), christened it the Moormack, put $185,000 worth of repairs into its hull and went after business. From that time on the history of Moore-McCormack is the history of most of today's U. S. merchant marine...
12th District--McCormack, Democrat, reelected...
Under Ireland's new constitution (TIME, Dec. 27) its former President, U. S.-born Eamon de Valera, becomes Prime Minister. During a coast-to-coast broadcast from Hollywood last week, John McCormack, famed Irish-born tenor, offered himself as a Presidential candidate to succeed de Valera-providing 1) a naturalized citizen of the U. S. is eligible for the position and 2) the de Valera and Cosgrave opposition parties favor him. Said he: "Many of my friends in Ireland have written me to throw my hat in the ring...
Having heard the Committee's Chairman Robert Doughton say in defense of his bill that it might face Presidential veto if the third basket were removed, the House proceeded to cock an appreciative ear when Massachusetts' John McCormack urged that it be removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from...
...Bill unless Congress lopped off discriminations against Hawaii and Puerto Rico, allowed them also unrestricted refining. When the Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost, 135-to-92, and swarms of sugar lobbyists perched confidently in the gallery, knowing they had won, began making side bets on various minor amendments. The Bill itself finally passed...