Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee paying Mary Vinson $116.66 per month...
Rich Mrs. McLean, a mining tycoon's daughter much in the Washington lime light, interested herself in the Lindbergh kidnapping as early as March 4. In 1919 she, too, had lost her firstborn; 9-year-old Vinson, the "Hundred-Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace...
...subject for the forensic contests will be: "Resolved, That Congress should carry into effect the provisions of the Vinson Navy Bill". The men who have been chosen to go on the spring trip are: M. A. Hoffman '34, A. G. Malkan '33, G. F. Oest '33, J. W. Page '33, S. M. Peyser '34, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, P. C. Reardon '32, and S. J. Wener...
...Conference now sitting at Geneva. This view impressed Senator Watson Republican floor leader, who declared: "The Republican leadership will do all it can to get this bill through. It will give our men some chips with which to sit in the Geneva game." Meanwhile in the House, Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was again at work to get his building bill out on the floor. More specific than the Hale measure, his would authorize the construction of 120 craft-three aircraft carriers, nine light cruisers, 13 destroyer leaders, 72 destroyers and 23 submarines -at an estimated cost...
Another reason that Congressman Vinson did not mention was that, as the result of reapportionment the city of Macon (pop.: 53,829) has been placed in his district, needs political cultivation by its new Representative...