Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. HOGARTH...
...JUDSON W. CHAPMAN...
...Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
From Top to Bottom. But the Bulwinkle-Reed debate produced one distraction. It came from New Hampshire's peppery Charles W. Tobey, an opponent of the bill, who indignantly reported an encounter he had had with three railroad lobbyists in the Senate dining room. Said Senator Tobey: "I walked to their table, and said 'My compliments to you, gentlemen.' I said, 'I understand you called me a son of a bitch, and consigned me to hell. . . .' I said, 'You are crooked, sirs, from top to bottom. . . .' I walked away...
...Captain Stark radioed the Washington traffic control tower and asked if he could come in "on contact" (fly within sight of the ground). When Washington flashed an O.K., Stark started down from 7,000 feet. At 6:13, when he had passed over Martinsburg, W. Va., and was almost clear of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Stark made his last report-3,000 feet and still descending (through rain and fog) for a look at the ground. After that, Flight 410 was heard no more...