Word: connor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned, Chairman O'Connor of Rules was "purged," and old Adolph Sabath of Illinois, next in line, was safely reelected. But of the eight other Democrats on Rules, only three were New Dealers and they were all swept away in the elections. In line for the chair after old Mr. Sabath are Georgia's Cox, Virginia's Smith, North Carolina's Clark and Dies of Texas-all in varying degrees anti-Administration. Moreover, the new ratio on Rules will be nine Democrats to five Republicans. Small wonder that Franklin Roosevelt last week called his Congressional leaders...
...Representative John J. O'Connor of New York (purged in the Democratic primary but nominated on the Republican ticket against the Purge's candidate, James Fay) announced: "I am not only confident that I will be re-elected but I am confident that I will be re-elected as chairman of the Rules Committee. . . ." To Mr. O'Connor from Democratic Representative Arthur P. Lamneck of Ohio promptly went a pledge of one vote...
...Roosevelt's genuine surprise, his man won. After seeing his three other prime Purge efforts defeated in Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, he had predicted that disobedient Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee would defeat obedient, one-legged James H. Fay by 500 votes. It was just the other way around: Mr. Fay won by 553 votes out of 16,000 cast...
...carded for November is another fight between Messrs. Fay & O'Connor, for the latter, to be on the safe side, entered the Republican primary also, on a straight anti-Roosevelt platform. To the disgust of young Republican leaders who are trying to "liberalize" their party, Roosevelt-hating Republicans rewarded Tammany's O'Connor for his long public service (eight House terms) by picking him as their party's nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish...
Nominee Fay also won the designation of the American Labor Party in his district. To be sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might save for him his chairmanship of the Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation...