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Senate Work Done: The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Administered the oath of office to Cameron Morrison, who succeeded the late Lee Slater Overman as Senator from North Carolina. ¶ Adopted a resolution requesting its Committee on Appropriations to call on Chairman Arthur Woods of the President's Unemployment Commission and other Government officers for information regarding the seriousness of the Depression...
...question. Senator-elect Bailey, a regular Democrat, bitterly opposed the appointment before the Committee: "When the President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using a Democratic appointment to reward a supporter of himself." But Senator Cameron Morrison, likewise a regular Democrat, who was designated to fill the post of late Senator Lee Slater Overman (TIME, Dec. 22), defended his friend and neighbor, McNinch, before the Committee and again in his maiden Senate speech. "I think McNinch is a man mightily and seriously disturbed in his political relations...
Your recent summary of Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison's leading editorial on Prohibition (in the Christian Century, ''only Dry weekly") I read with interest (TIME, Dec. 1). I also noted marginal comment, a counter sword play, wherein statement was made that TIME is neutral on Prohibition as on all other national issues. You then openly retaliated. While assigning sincerity to the man, you took occasion to say that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife...
...regular Dry Democrat who supported the Brown Derby in 1928, Senator- designate Morrison was at once confronted with a major and perhaps controlling decision in the case of his fellow townsman. Frank R. McNinch, appointed as a Hoovercrat to the Federal Power Commission...