Word: metcalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such an attack on his WPA. The War Department undoubtedly felt that General Hagood had been talking out of turn too long. Republican Senator Metcalf hung full responsibility for the Hagood ouster on President Roosevelt by declaring on the floor of the Senate, and it was not denied, that the General's case had been discussed at a recent Cabinet meeting at the White House. To take the curse of politics off its action...
...Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader can get, pointed out that the late Brigadier General William Mitchell had been court-martialed by a Republican Administration for publicly criticizing his superiors...
Died. Victor Howard Metcalf, 82, one-time (1904-06) Secretary of Commerce and Labor, onetime (1906-08) Secretary of the Navy; in Oakland, Calif. When President Theodore Roosevelt used his objective report to force California to back down on its anti-Japanese restrictions, his political influence suffered greatly and he later resigned in ill health...
...Deal had taken a stiff drubbing in the smallest of states. Others less preoccupied were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign. Postmaster General Farley, vacationing westward, had as usual wired the chief Democratic nominee ''best wishes" on a happy term in Washington. And even Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who supposedly never plays politics, telegraphed support of the Democrats...
...Memorial Hall Mr. Bennett, Sec. 16, 19 Memorial Hall Mr. Buffington, Sec. 7, 18 Memorial Hall Mr. Henry, Sec. 2, 6, 15 Memorial Hall Dr. Herrick, Sec. 1, 14 Memorial Hall Mr. Holske, Sec. 5 Memorial Hall Dr. Howe, Sec. 8, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. Metcalf, Sec. 3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Shelley, Sec. 13, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 10, 11 New Lect. Hall Dr. Zipf, Sec. 17 New Lect. Hall German 18 Emerson A German 21 New Lect. Hall Government 24 New Lect. Hall Government 32a Sever 5 Indic Philology 2 Emerson A Music...