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...weeks, under able, studious Chairman Clifton Woodrum, the special committee had pondered the whole idea. Their object was not to write a law but to study "the field of policy." For two weeks members had listened to more than 100 witnesses; hearings filled over 600 pages. Among the witnesses: General of the Army George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, B. F. McLaurin of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mrs. Charles D. Rockel, chairman of the international relations committee of the Royersford (Pa.) Woman's Club...
Expecting a crowd, tall, white-haired Committee Chairman Clifton Alexander Woodrum, a shrewd Virginia Democrat who has wangled many a military appropriation through the House, installed a public address system in the spacious chamber, had a small regiment of usherettes on duty...
When he is not learning more about amphibious warfare on places like Makin, Tarawa or Kwajalein, Holland Smith lives in a house near the naval base at Pearl Harbor with his tall, courtly Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Graves B. ("Bobby") Erskine, his aide, Major Clifton A. Woodrum Jr. (ex-SEC lawyer and son of the Virginia Congressman) and his three Marine orderlies...
Opposing John McCormack was pompous, earnest Clifton Woodrum of Roanoke, Va., a varnished, white-haired member who has championed economy by opposing all Federal expenditures which do not directly benefit Virginia. Mr. Woodrum's chances were slim: the White House wanted Mr. McCormack...
Nobody contradicted Pinchfist Woodrum, but the House whooped down his proposal to kill the bill...