Word: mellett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis, to whose reputation the case had added, had long since become dean of conservative lawyers. Hammer served five terms in Congress, died in 1930. The Dagenharts had dropped from sight; last heard from them was in 1924 when Reuben Dagenhart, then aged 20, told Scripps-Howard Reporter Lowell Mellett (now a Presidential assistant, see p. 52): "I guess I'd been a lot better off. . . . Look at me! One hundred five pounds, a grown man and no education. . . . The years I've put in the cotton mills stunted my growth. ... I had to stop school after...
Oftenest reputed to be in line for World War II's George Creel, if one is ever appointed, is a soft-spoken ex-newspaperman named Lowell Mellett, elder brother of Don Mellett, "the newspapermen's martyr," who was killed in 1926 by gangsters on whom he waged war as editor of the Canton (Ohio) News. Top-flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal...
...Appointed Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard newspaperman, now Chief of the Office of Government Reports, to be one of his Administrative assistants...
...Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations adviser to the President is ardent New Dealer Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard editor, newest member of the group, notable because like Wendell Willkie he is a native of Elwood...