Word: truman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing the event to the press an ample attendance of newshawks and cameramen as well as a batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Toilette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther and Organizers Robert Kanter and J. J. Kennedy, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and a onetime football player (University of Dayton), led his friends up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers...
During Chairman Wheeler's absence his place has usually been taken by Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week...
...Frederick Lowman 106 Morris Earle 104 Nathaniel Goddard Benchley 99 Herbert Bruce Griswold 97 Sheldon Ware 88 Wiley Edward Mayne 82 Gibson Winter 82 Caspar Willard Weinberger 79 Robert Wells Snyder 76 Peter Thacher Brooks 75 James Sinclair Armstron 59 Richard Talliesyn Davis 59 Aaron Jerome Himelhoch 56 Philip Truman Shahan 52 Paul Massik 46 Carlos Colton Daughaday, Jr. 45 Alvah Woodbury Sulloway 42 Joseph Franklin 30 1939 Ballot *Francis Austin Harding, Jr. 132 *Richard Howard Sullivan 120 *Joseph Spence Harvin 106 Charles Lee Burwell 105 Richard Peter Hedblom 95 Cleveland Amory 82 Richard Stanwood Benner 74 Oliver Payne Bolton...
Harvard-alternates--McGowan, Shirk, Litman, Grondahl, Herrick, Wills, Snell, Dampeer, Heckel. Brown alternates -- Burbank, Petrone, Larkowich, Burkhart, Truman, Clerk...
When he finished his career as a football and dramatics star at University of Dayton in 1932, big, boyish Richard Truman Frankensteen taught school for a year, then went to work for Chrysler Corp. as a body trimmer in the Dodge plant in Detroit. He had worked there before, during high school vacations and for two years while he studied law at night. Soon automobile unionism was burgeoning with NRA, and educated, articulate Dick Frankensteen was a natural leader. When an Automotive Industrial Workers Association was organized in 1934 he became its first secretary. Next year...