Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of the steel crisis, Harry Truman took time out to fill two big jobs in his official family. He nominated rich, handsome W. Stuart Symington to be Assistant Secretary of War for Air and rich, ambitious Edwin W. Pauley to be Under Secretary of the Navy...
Oilman. Ed Pauley* had made a career of mixing politics and business. Ever since Truman got in the White House his wife has wanted him to get a big-time job. Last week he got it. Ed was a "Truman-before-Chicago" man. As treasurer of the Democratic National Committee he wiped out a $750,000 deficit in 1942, raised funds so efficiently that the Committee actually had a small surplus in 1944. As politicians reckon, he was entitled to cash...
Said Washington dopesters: the President, who had previously picked wavy-haired John L. Sullivan, the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Air, had now definitely settled on California's rich oilman, Edwin W. Pauley, who had raised millions for the Democratic Party as its treasurer from...
...first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of achievement in private life-he had founded an oil company, directed a bank, helped operate a big construction company. And he had done a shrewd, sound job for the President in sizing up the reparations picture in Germany and Japan. Harry Truman liked him and trusted him; but some...
Compared to all previous reports, Pauley's estimates of how much could or should be taken from Japan were high. It will be good news for reparations claimants if Japan has as much left- after the loss of Manchuria and Korea, plus heavy bomb damage-as Pauley's recommendations indicate...