Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman's two appointments last week were both handed to old friends: 1) California Democrat Ed Pauley as the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission; and 2) Omaha insurance man Ed McKim as chief administrative assistant (see THE ADMINISTRATION). President Truman's chief adviser on all matters, big & small, continued to be National Chairman Hannegan, the man who put him over for Vice President...
...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...make room for Politico Pauley, who will go to Moscow as the President's personal representative when the Commission meets this month, Harry Truman had to displace an appointment made by Franklin Roosevelt only six weeks ago: sharp-eyed, perceptive Dr. Isador Lubin...
Besides the expected change in the State Department, Washington politicos expected something like this: 9 Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, would be replaced. Possible successors: California's Edwin W. Pauley. hustling treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; or John Wesley Snyder, rotund, 48-year-old St. Louis banker, close friend of the President, former executive vice president and director of the Defense Plant Corp. in Jesse Jones's RFC. (Snyder, said Washington speculation, might first become Federal Lean Administrator, succeeding Fred Vinson...
Behind him, Will Jr. has the money and influence of rich California Oilman Edwin W. Pauley, secretary of the Democratic National Committee. A reserve officer in the Field Artillery, Will Jr. will soon be called to service. Then he will let his name and his backers campaign...