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Another crony also got a cushy financial job. Brusque, grey Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., the President's Naval Aide, was nominated for a 14-year term on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...Jake Vardaman was born in Mississippi, the son of the late rabble-rousing Senator James K. Vardaman. He studied law at the University of Mississippi and Millsaps College, finally moved to St. Louis. There he was banker, lawyer and head of a shoe company. An artillery captain in World War I (not in Harry Truman's battery), he joined the Naval Reserve in 1939, was on Okinawa when the President called him home to be naval aide. Since then he has been a constant White House adviser...
Reserve Officer Vardaman, 50-year-old son of the late rabble-rousing Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, is a St. Louis lawyer, banker and shoe manufacturer (Vardaman Shoe Co.). He was also commander of Battery A, 335th Field Artillery, A.E.F. For onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman, that was a recommendation...
...Colonel Richard Park Jr. of the regular Army with Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, emergency officer and World War I comrade of Captain Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery. Last week the President announced that his new Naval aide (replacing Vice Admiral Wilson Brown) was Captain James K. Vardaman...
There was the instructive memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless...