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Sterling performances by Mike McKeough and Teny Colen led Manhattan to an impressive 40-131 victory over second-place Villaneva to break the Wildents' six-year strangleheld on the Intercollegists Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) cross country title...
...Fired Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond S. McKeough, Truman-appointed members of the International Claims Commission, which handles claims of U.S. investors whose property has been nationalized by foreign governments. Marvel and McKeough, who had refused to resign their $15,000-a-year jobs after the election, had settled only 132 claims in more than three years, still had 1,000 pending...
...Senate, Harry Truman narrowly escaped another setback to presidential prestige. This time, it was on his nomination of Raymond S. McKeough (rhymes with Reo), ex-New Deal Congressman from Illinois and onetime OPA official, to the U.S. Maritime Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee had turned thumbs down, because McKeough was still a paid ($10,000-a-year) director for C.I.O.'s P.A.C. The Administration took the fight to the floor...
...merchant marine is resting now on a powder keg because of the antagonism between the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. I don't want to light the fuse." Said Illinois' Scott Lucas, leading the fight for the Administration, "the basic reason [for the opposition] was that Mr. McKeough went out to work for the P.A.C. to help re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...McKeough's admission that he was still on P.A.C.'s payroll did not help. It brought the Administration down to the earthy argument that his rejection would play direct into Republican hands. Nine Democrats, six of them Southerners, were unimpressed, voted with the Republicans anyhow. But it was not enough. Raymond McKeough squeezed through by an eight-vote margin, was confirmed...