Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur F. Mullen balked at resigning his good job as Nebraska's Democratic National Committeeman just because he had been doing a thumping good business as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington since last spring. Said he: "I do not claim to have any 'back door' to the White House and I practice law on my own merits alone. ... I have been a National Committeeman for many years and I have not found my profession in conflict with my office...
...Utica. N. Y. Anna Mullen was shot twice through the brain, lived...
...Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur Mullen, Democratic national committeeman, also helped to stalemate the Senatorial choice. Democrat Mullen wanted to consolidate his grip on Federal patronage by getting his friend Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, one-time (1911-23) Senator, back into his old job. But Governor Bryan was in no mood to foreclose his own chance...
...reward when he and he alone marched into the Red Room with President- elect Roosevelt to discuss War Debts with President Hoover last November. President Roosevelt gave Dr. Moley his State Department appointment three days after the inaugural. For his personal staff the new Assistant Secretary picked Arthur Mullen Jr., son of Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago convention floor manager; Celeste Jedel, 22, a pretty honor student out of one of his Barnard classes; Annette Pomerene, 23, a tall, dark, crisp graduate of Hunter College. Celeste Jedel has her desk in his office, is carried on the department...
...Dear Arthur," began a personal letter in which the President last week offered Nebraska's Arthur Francis Mullen, his floor manager at the Chicago convention, a seat on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Mullen, whose friends had hoped he would get the Attorney Generalship, turned down the judgeship because "in these stern and tragic times I can render greater service to your administration as a private citizen...