Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pauley Disagrees. That brought Edwin W. Pauley into the picture. He had made a fortune out of oil taken from California's tidelands field. He argued that it would be a bad thing to let the issue go to the Supreme Court: the Government's lawsuit, filed by bumbling Attorney General Tom Clark, was clouding the titles of oil companies (such as his). Therefore, Congress should pass a resolution renouncing any U.S. interest in submerged lands. Not so much because of what he did as because of how he did it, Pauley could not become Under Secretary...
...Pauley and other advocates of states' rights had done their work well. The attorney general of California got 45 other state attorneys general behind him in a move to get Congress to decide the issue, without waiting for the Supreme Court. Last week the Senate, which had once unanimously favored letting the Court determine the question, voted 44 to 34 to settle it at once. Its decision: the states owned the land. The House went along...
...Congress needed a further example of Presidential bad temper, it was supplied by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey (who was largely responsible for persuading the Senate not to accept Ed Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy). A month ago he had written the President about the grain shortage which was forcing New England farmers to slaughter their chickens. Said Senator Tobey: "This is a Macedonian...
...seems to me that you have been making Macedonian cries or yells ever since I have been in the White House. . .. Your unwarranted attacks on Mr. Pauley almost ruined a good public servant. . . . You have made it exceedingly difficult for me to get good men to fill the necessary places in the Government. You are still continuing your Macedonian cries and I hope you will get a lot of pleasure out of them...
...Unanimously confirmed presidential pal John W. Snyder to be Secretary of the Treasury, and natty, conscientious John L. Sullivan to be Under Secretary of the Navy (the job Ed Pauley wanted...