Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Beverly M. Vincent of Brownsville, Ky. had a trying week. First short, grey, steely-eyed Congressman Vincent was besieged in his office by a harpy-like group of women who said they were from Kentucky (the Congressman thought they were really from Cincinnati) and grew so bitter in their denunciation of conscription that he had to throw them out. Then, with the rest of the House, Representative Vincent had to sit through an equally violent denunciation of conscription by small, red-faced Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio. A Coughlinite and Irish patrioteer, Martin Sweeney declaimed that conscription...
...rather you would sit somewhere else," quietly said Beverly Vincent. When Sweeney bristled, Vincent added: "You are a traitor." Words passed. Vincent called Sweeney a ... .. . ..... . Sweeney swung...
...Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, who added up the total cost of the projects (in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico), found they came to $26,859,081. Robert & Co.'s cut in that, for "engineering and architectural services," was close to 3½%. Representatives Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, Colgate Darden of Virginia both wondered out loud whether the secretary of the Democratic National Committee should have let his firm bid on Government contracts. Said Mr. Darden: "It doesn't look good to the man in the street...
Thomas J. Adams, Jr., Theodore M. Adelson, Warren S. Berg, Donald W. Davis, Albert C. Dege, Jr., Thomas F. Donohue, Robert Fishman, James J. Fitzpatrick, John J. Galvin, Robert L. Hayden, Paul J. Kirby, Brian A. Loveridge, Vincent D. Lovett, Bernard N. Mandelbaum, Salvatore N. Mangano, Richard I. Morris, Herbert W. Neal, Edward J. O'Rourke, Jr., James B. O'Connell, Arthur J. Peros, Paul V. Quinn, Paul I. Richards, Charles Stathopoulos, Williab A. Stenzel, and Harvey L. Thomas...
...alarm, as you know, 15 minutes ago. The orchestra leader simply announced they'd go on playing as the crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following interviews with trainmen by BBC men in Euston Station, the program wound up with J. B. Priestley...