Word: overman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman...
...saying they could not vote for him. (Mr. Warren is not popular with the Republican organization in his native Michigan.) Senator after Senator voted. The Progressive and Insurgent Republicans, without exception, voted against confirmation. So did Hiram Johnson, administration opponent. So did all the Democrats except one, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, who expressed the opinion that the President should be given the opportunity of choosing his own official family. The vote was obviously close. Republican leaders became uneasy...
...vote was again 40 to 40; every Senator who had voted against the nomination voted to table the motion to reconsider and vice versa. It seemed that Mr. Dawes might still cast a deciding vote. But Senator Overman, the sole Democrat who had voted for confirmation and against tabling, rose...
...SENATOR OVERMAN (Dem.): "Nothing brilliant...
Borah of Idaho still wore the air of a preoccupied man. The red carnation of New York's Copeland flashed amiably, urbanely. Came Couzens of Michigan and McNary of Oregon, to colloquize earnestly, apart from the hubbub. The long, black coat and white expanse of waistcoat were Overman's, of North Carolina...