Word: mccormack
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...that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling. Voloshen and Sweig were convicted of perjury. More recently Anderson branded Pennsylvania Congressman J. Irving Whalley a "backcountry Bobby Baker," accusing the seven-term Republican of taking kickbacks and padding his payroll. Whalley has announced that he will not seek...
Died. Harriet McCormack, 87, wife of former House Speaker John McCormack; of heart disease; in Washington. Summing up his near-legendary relationship with Mrs. McCormack, who gave up a career with the Metropolitan Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met-sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital...
...been the Bella Abzug of the beer and backlash set, expected to be doing most of the punching. In 1967, after having served seven years as Massachusetts secretary of state, White handily defeated Mrs. Hicks for the mayoralty. In 1970, Mrs. Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when he challenged Republican Francis Sargent for the governorship, he did not even manage to carry Boston. Before last month's non-partisan primary, White was already being counted...
Died. Nathan Voloshen, 73, the Washington fixer who turned the office of former Speaker of the House John McCormack into an influence-peddler's paradise; in Manhattan. When indicted in 1970, Voloshen initially denied that he had illegally used his longtime friendship with the Speaker to obtain favors for clients. The dapper door opener, a Maryland attorney with New York offices, later pleaded guilty to a slew of offenses, all committed without McCormack's knowledge. Among the transgressions: lobbying to obtain reduced sentences for convicted racketeers. Because he cooperated with authorities, Voloshen was given a suspended sentence...
...curtain raiser, fluttery Karen Nash (Maureen Stapleton) books a suite, trying to rekindle the lust hopes of her 23-year-old marriage. But saturnine Sam Nash proves as remote as room service. The reason, Karen correctly deduces, is Sam's office fixture, a Miss McCormack. It is not only the affair that grieves the wronged wife, it is the businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arriv...