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Chief witnesses for the defense were Silverman's onetime potent Washington lawyer-lobbyists: Ralph Thomas O'Neil, onetime (1930-31) National Commander of the American Legion; Robert Jackson of New Hampshire and Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, both Democratic National Committeemen until President Roosevelt objected to mixing politics and lobbying (TIME, Jan. 29; March 26, 1934). All three testified that as representatives of Silverman they had dealt chiefly with the Assistant Secretary of War, had been shown no favors by Colonel McMullen...
...sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg of the Business Advisory Council, Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present was Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead who, though a Farmer-Laborite, is a crack...
Regretful of its error, TIME gladly gives Democrat Mullen back to Nebraska...
...Because Arthur Mullen is from Nebraska-we cannot be blamed. We can do nothing. Because TIME gives him to Kansas-we rejoice and are duly grateful. May your circulation be tripled, if the gods please...
...Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen . . ." (TIME, March 25, p. 14) The Old Man" (affectionate alias by majority of Nebraskan voters) was never Kansan was is and will continue to be potent . . . non-meddler in patronage, reluctant recommender. Still Nebraska claims wholly. Kansans please quitclaim...