Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National reporting--Edward A. Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "for his articles on the tidewater oil situation, which contributed to the nationwide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Under-secretary of the Navy...
...Received from the Judiciary Committee a House-passed bill restoring to state ownership all tidewater oil deposits (an issue over which Ed Pauley had stubbed his toe as candidate for Under Secretary of the Navy...
...confused with Oilman Ed Pauley...
...frequent conferences, disposed of many routine chores. Twice he called in his Congressional Big Four. He had his Cabinet in for lunch, later for a meeting. He gave Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan an unscheduled hour in which, presumably, the surgery to end the pain of the Pauley appointment was approved...
...Pauley the President wrote a long letter: "With full confidence in you, I shall reluctantly withdraw your nomination [as Under Secretary of the Navy]. . . . You stand before your countrymen after vicious and unwarranted attacks with integrity unscathed, with ability unquestioned, with honor unsullied...