Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley decided that the time had come to investigate OAP again. He introduced a resolution calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to do so. Wiley said he had been "flooded with tips and leads" alleging "certain irregularities" in OAP, "questionable dealings and behind-the-scenes connivance." As he had told the Senate earlier, he wanted to know if it were true that OAP had turned into "a super gravy train" with gravy pouring down certain Democratic vests...
Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley said last October that the Senate should investigate the Office of Alien Property's "super gravy train" for friends of the Truman Administration. He asked for details on fees paid by the ten largest firms under its jurisdiction. Last week Wiley got a partial report. It covered the biggest alien company held by the Government, the Nazi-controlled General Aniline and Film Corp., and its sales-distribution organization, General Dyestuff Corp. Interesting item: Louis Johnson (Harry Truman's campaign fund raiser in 1948, Defense Secretary...
...week's end, the Americans bowed out of Strasbourg, leaving behind a blunt warning that U.S. taxpayers are getting tired of helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
...muskrat fur coat owned by Susan Inglis, Wellesley '52, and an $800 sheared coon coat owned by Ellen Daggett, a student at the University of Minnesota. Also lost in Lowell were a $70 topcoat with an $8 pair of shoes in the pockets belonging to Robert L. Wiley '52 and a $25 topcoat owned by Lawrence D. Stifel...
...rest of the game was dominated by the defensive lines of the two teams. Outstanding defensive players for Open were Deke DeCoen, Ed Cohen, Joe Broido, and safety man Norman Hall. The Closed defensive platoon, which held Open scoreless in the last half, was led by Lowell Sachnoff, Bob Wiley, Tom Vickery, and Sam Paschal...