Word: truman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply the bitterness of some of Roosevelt's fights with them is buried. Cannon, retired far from the scene of legislative battles, remembers much, and Roosevelt's Cabinet? how diverse have been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice; another, Elihu Root, is dean of U. S. statecraft; another, Truman Handy Newberry, has had most discomforting experiences with the Senate to which he aspired; two others, James R. Garfield and George Bruce Cortelyou have retired to private life. But John Hay, Charles J. Bonaparte, Paul Morton, are gone. Swiftly the new order becomes the old, and the old becomes...
...attention has just been called to-your issue of May 25, Page 2, in which I find this sentence (speaking of Senator Spencer) : "The Nation remembered him as an irreconcilable opponent of Woodrow Wilson, as chief defender of Truman H. Newberry, who was eventually driven from the Senate, as a leading apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease." Without assuming to discuss with you whether or not this article is libelous, I challenge your attention to the fact that it is grossly inaccurate: in fact, it is absolutely untrue. I had the honor of representing Senator Newberry professionally at the Grand...
...Nation remembered him as an irreconcilable opponent of Woodrow Wilson, as chief defender of Truman H. Newberry, who was eventually driven from the Senate, as a leading apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease...
...Couzens declared in the Senate his belief that the Treasury had had the memorandum in question for more than two years, that the memorandum had been prepared at that time by Thompson & Black, Manhattan Accountants, in order to "get" Henry Ford, who was then having a contest with Truman H. Newberry over a seat in the Senate...
...Dillingham of Vermont, Senator Dillingham was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, which passes on the eligibility of Senators to take their seats. Senator Spencer will succeed to that office by rule of seniority. It so happens that Senator Spencer was the great champion of Senator Truman H. Newberry in the deluge of mud which swept down upon that gentleman from 1918 through 1922 because he allegedly spent more than $100,000 campaigning for election...