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Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
...takes over was left vacant by Clint Anderson, who decided some time ago to run for Senator from New Mexico. It was the third Cabinet change in the past six months. The others: Jesse Donaldson, up from letter carrier to Postmaster General; Charles Sawyer, Ohio lawyer, to Secretary of Commerce...
...Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker...
...replace Harriman at Commerce, Harry Truman once again exercised his penchant for mediocre appointees. He picked greying, bespectacled Charles Sawyer, 61-year-old Cincinnati lawyer, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime campaign contributor. Sawyer owns two Ohio radio stations, a newspaper, and is a director of the Cincinnati Reds. A perennial delegate to Democratic conventions, he was a national committeeman from 1936 to 1944, was once lieutenant governor of Ohio, in 1940 was the state's favorite-son candidate for President. Franklin Roosevelt appointed him ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxemburg in 1944. He and Harry Truman are old friends...
William C. Sawyer--Matthews hall; Union Committee; PBH Social Service Committee; Freshman football; Relief Drive; Yard athletics...