Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin Islands Judge T. Webber Wilson, accused of sabotaging Governor Pearson's administration. Hardly had the seconds exchanged a round of vituperation when the affair was brought abruptly to a halt (TIME. July 22). For each of the seconds had a second...
...Governor Pearson he wrote: "The current investigation of the Virgin Islands has developed no facts that reflect upon your honesty, or integrity, or devotion to duty...
...Pearson the President expressed the hope that he would accept in place of the $8,000 job of Governor the $8,000 job of Assistant Director of PWA Housing in charge of Public Welfare, "a post of honor...
Promotion. Not so uniformly satisfying to all parties however were the effects of the President's Solomonic decision. When Franklin Roosevelt nominated Lawrence William Cramer to succeed Dr. Pearson, Mr. Ickes joyfully announced, "I'm satisfied," but Senator Tydings rushed to the White House, if not to protest, then apparently for no purpose...
...Most definite prediction of the conference was made by Dr. Warren's colleague and collaborator, Frank Ashmore Pearson: "It is probable that the volume of building construction will rise from about 1936 to 1942 and that the value of gold will fall. If these two events should occur, business will be very active and real estate will be a prize possession-not a drug on the market...