Word: reappointed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When President Eisenhower was asked at a press conference why he had refused to reappoint William R. Connole to the Federal Power Commission, he replied with unusual feeling: "I think I can find a better man." Last week, to replace Connole, the President named Brooklyn-born Thomas James Donegan, 53, a former FBI agent and member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who helped present the evidence to federal grand juries that indicted Alger Hiss, William W. Remington and Judith Coplon. Also named to the FPC was Paul A. Sweeny, 64, a Democrat and Justice Department lawyer, who will fill...
Keen, combative Connole is a Hartford lawyer who was appointed to the FPC in 1955 after serving as general counsel of the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. When word got out that he was not to be reappointed, seven state public utility commissions protested. Unmoved, the White House said that the President decided not to reappoint Connole because he does not get along with the other commissioners, has urged greater federal control of gas than the Administration believes is necessary. Explained a presidential aide: "There is no reason to keep a man in a job whose philosophy does not agree with...