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...these moments came when Vermont's Representative Charles A. Plumley found an item of $7,000,000 to build a stadium at Annapolis. That did not seem to Mr. Plumley to be essential to the war. Ernie King's deputy, Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home (not the least of whose qualifications is his ability to get along with Congress) quickly admitted that the item should not have been put in the bill. "The bureau chiefs are here, and I think you are going to give them a bad quarter of an hour," said wry Admiral Home...
...nine years Vermonters have worried along with white-topped, square-jawed Congressman Charles Plumley. Farmers disliked him because he lined up with the Midwestern farm bloc to keep up the price of grain, needed for Vermont dairy farms. Workers mumbled at his Red-baiting, labor-hating speeches. Still others decried his lack of taste: he once remarked it was good the Dionne quintuplets did not live in the U.S., for the AAA would rule that two should be plowed under. But hardly anyone ever challenged Charles Plumley at the polls; and Vermont always re-elected...
Fortnight ago a small group of farmers, applegrowers, storekeepers and newspapermen met in Rutland to air their Plumley grievances. Result: Sam Ogden decided...
Married. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith Plumley, 29, first wife of Zachary Smith Reynolds (his second: Torch Singer Libby Holman), tobacco heir found shot to death in 1932; and Albert C. Wharton Jr.; she for the fourth time; in Bunnell...
Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign...