Word: warrene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill. Husky, leathery Lindsay Carter Warren, Congressman from Washington, N. C., more than half won the fight by the way he drafted this year's bill. He listed the points on which last year's bill was attacked and simply left most of them out this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board...
...short, Lindsay Warren made Reorganization, model 1939, a good deal less drastic than Reorganization 1938. He also made it politically possible-just barely possible-to get the bill passed...
...Doones. Lindsay Warren won his bill's crucial battle on the House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...
...Joseph S. Stern, Jr., '40, Speakers; Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Library; Harry Newman, Jr. '42, Freshman; Archibald M. McMillan 1Dv. and Roger Schafer '41, Foreign Students; William B. Daughaday '40, Arthur W. Page, Jr. '40 and Benjamin Wilcox, Jr. '40, Senior Advisory; Robert E. Russell '41, Information; and J. Warren Palm '40, Handbook Committee...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...