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Senate Work Done: The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Administered the oath of office to Cameron Morrison, who succeeded the late Lee Slater Overman as Senator from North Carolina. ¶ Adopted a resolution requesting its Committee on Appropriations to call on Chairman Arthur Woods of the President's Unemployment Commission and other Government officers for information regarding the seriousness of the Depression...
...President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using a Democratic appointment to reward a supporter of himself." But Senator Cameron Morrison, likewise a regular Democrat, who was designated to fill the post of late Senator Lee Slater Overman (TIME, Dec. 22), defended his friend and neighbor, McNinch, before the Committee and again in his maiden Senate speech. "I think McNinch is a man mightily and seriously disturbed in his political relations," he admitted, "but nevertheless he is pure and honest." Strangely allied with Senator Morrison was his longtime...
...Adjourned respectfully at the death of North Carolina's 76-year-old Senator Lee Slater Overman...
...evening President Hoover went to the Capitol, took a front row seat before the Senate rostrum. Before him rested a grey coffin in which lay the body of North Carolina's Senator Lee Slater Overman who had died that morning. The Overman desk (on the aisle, second row) was draped in black. The funeral service, conducted by Spnate Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife...