Word: sutphin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question was finally put in an amendment by New Jersey's Sutphin, who usually speaks for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edison (TIME, Feb. 20). Republican Leader Joe Martin shrewdly held his forces in hand until he could combine them with 64 anti-Guam Democrats. The vote was 205 to 168 against Guam, and then 368 to 4 in favor of the other eleven bases. Republican Adman Bruce Barton, unable to control himself: "Guam, Guam with the Wind...
...Chief of Naval Operations, and Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, coolly declared that airships had no demonstrable military value, flying qualities aside. Congressman Harter pleaded for re-employment at Goodyear-Zeppelin factory in Akron, Mr. Dingell for Detroit's metal-clads, Mr. Sutphin for adequate training at Lakehurst. Congress casually passed the buck to Mr. Roosevelt: if he wished, he could spend up to $3,000,000 for a ship about half the size of the Akron and Macon. Having consulted Thomas Edison's son, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison...
Biggest is Goodyear, whose President Paul W. Litchfield plugged for dirigibles at a closed Congressional hearing last year. Public pleading for dirigibles is left to Congressman Dow Harter of Ohio. Congressman John Dingell of Detroit and William Sutphin of New Jersey (whose district includes Lakehurst) are also dutiful airship boosters...
...Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked to each other about Reclamation, the Townsend Plan, other legislation of the day. The Public Utilities Act, strangely enough, they never discussed...
...Jersey's dozen districts renominated their present representatives; in the third district regular Republican Thomas M. Gopsill is to run against Democratic William H. Sutphin, Wartime airman, onetime Mayor of Matawan (when aged 28). In the ninth district Peter A. Cavicchia, Newark lawyer and school board member, won the Republican nomination to succeed Franklin William Fort who was defeated in the Senate contest (see below). Onetime (1919-21, 1923-25) Democratic Congressman Daniel Francis Minahan will run against...