Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raymond Stephen McKeough, now Congressman from Cook County, was picked by Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash machine as the candidate to oppose Brooks, when Mayor Ed Kelly failed to get an endorsement from President Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 9). Old (78), horse-loving Pat Nash, who got rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely...
...down the country shouting for blood," and that "it is time that those who willed the war were driven from their hiding places and sent to the front where they can share some of the agony they have created." In Congress, Illinois Representative Raymond S. McKeough, the Kelly-Nash machine candidate for the Senate, hotly read the editorial in full, commented: ". . . I challenge Colonel McCormick's patriotism, and I say that that language, at this time, makes him subject, at least to thinking people, as being guilty of treason, and I so charge...
...Zealand traded Ministers for the first time, Franklin Roosevelt looked around for a New Dealer of Cabinet rank to exchange for Deputy Prime Minister Walter ("Wai") Nash of New Zealand. To his surprise, he couldn't find one. So he dipped down into the Republican grab bag and came up with Herbert Hoover's old Secretary of War, angular but still handsome Patrick Jay Hurley...
...Nelson's deputy, Kanzler has the power* to rip machine tools out of G.M., hand them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...
...Nash '43: R. B. Stedman...