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Tom L. Evans Oral History
… tom l. evans oral history oral history interviews with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, August 13, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, august 13, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, December 10, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, december 10, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, August 8, 1962
… tom l. evans oral history interview, august 8, 1962 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, December 19, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, december 19, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, September 18, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, september 18, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, June 13, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, june 13, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, November 28, 1962
… tom l. evans oral history interview, november 28, 1962 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, April 17, 1963
… tom l. evans oral history interview, april 17, 1963 oral history interview with tom l. evans kansas city businessman; friend of harry s. truman since the early twenties; formerly secretary of the harry s. truman …
Edward D. McKim Oral History Interviews
… early, stephen, 127 eisenhower, dwight d., 129 , 130 , 131 , 142 , 155 england, clarence, 42 eppley, eugene, 150 , 151 evans, milton r., 23 evans, tom l., 100 , 101 , 116-117 , 118 fawcett, william, 52-53 fisher, frank, 49 flaherty, daniel l., 15 flannigan, mike, 60 ft. … 172-174 paul, major general bert, 36 pearson, drew, 106 , 107 , 173-174 pendergast, james m., 59 pendergast, thomas j. (tom), 57 peterson, val, 140 , 141 , 153-154 , 155-157 pick, lt. general lewis a., 139-142 , 143 pope pius xii, 132 …
Randall S. Jesse Oral History Interview, December 23, 1975
… lot more about that than i did, because i suppose i felt by that time i knew him much better than [7] they did. we invited tom benton and his wife--the artist and rita benton--they were neighbors of ours, so we invited them for the same dinner. … this is right. i don't know how we found that out; so we had a two main course dinner. stilley: mr. truman, did he know tom benton before then? jessee: they had met once in the white house, more or less like i had met mr. truman, very casually, … what the library paid for it, or something like that. they had only raised about thirty, as i recall, and so one day tom evans invited tom benton and me to come down. tom evans was a very close friend of mr. truman; sort of in many ways his …
Rufus B. Burrus Oral History Interviews
… james m., 15-16 canfil, fred, 110-111 , 188-189 carrol, ed, 32 clark, bennett, 141 , 159 , 164-166 clark, mark, 266 clark, tom, 193-195 churchill, winston, 176 clifford, clark, 123 community savings and loan association, 42-43 , 59-60 , 62-64 … 41-42 dryden, l.t., 166 duncan, richard, 167 , 212-213 early, steve, 119-123 eisenhower, dwight david, 200-210 , 262 , 273 evans, tom, 202 , 233 fort leonard wood, 85 , 106 , 169-171 fort riley, 83 , 88-93 443rd regiment, 82-88 garr, vietta, 258 …
A. J. Stephens Oral History Interview
… mr. truman became president i became better acquainted with many of his friends there like eddie jacobson, ted marks, and tom evans. fuchs: you met most of these people after he was president? stephens: i met most of these people after he was … jacobson, a. d., contributed as much as he could get together, which i think was a very considerable amount. fuchs: was tom evans involved in that, do you remember? stephens: tom evans often called me for money for other things, but i don't know …
Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Jessee Oral History Interview
… and went on up, and fred went barging on into the presidential suite. there the president was, sitting and talking to tom mcgee, louis mcgee's father and long time friend of the president's. so, after mr. mcgee had finished visiting with him, … got a nice note from mrs. truman accepting and i told him that thomas hart benton, a missouri painter, would be there. tom was a neighbor of ours. and mr. truman made some remark such as "well, he's the fellow who made a mistake in painting … when i first went to kansas city, in march 1957. i went out with dave lloyd and wayne grover on the plane on march 11. tom evans took us up to the kansas city club, and wayne and i stayed at the club for about a week. well, the next morning grover …
Marvin Jones Oral History Interview
… james f.: carter, amon, 307-308 clark, champ, 13-14 , 32 , 85 clifford, clark, 298 congress hall hotel, 59-60 connally, tom, 85-86 coolidge, calvin: and democratic national convention of 1944, 117-120 as director, office of economic … national convention, 1960, 310-314 dies, martin, jr., 72-73 dies, martin, sr., 71-72 dupuis, charles, 387 , 388 , 389 evans, spike, 199 farley, james, 151 farm board (1929), 333 , 334 , 338 farm credit administration, 41-46 , 47 farmers union, … ceilings, role in, 186-191 as chairman of international conference on food and agriculture (1943), 94 , 98-107 connally, tom, relationship with, 85-86 democratic national convention, 1940, potential vice presidential candidate in, 148-150 chief …
Richard W. Bolling Oral History Interview
… had been wounded, we were for a broad-gauge social program, more like the new deal. johnson: of course, your meeting with tom evans was a fateful one and it has been written up in an interview that we have here, about how this came about, how you met … the same one that harry morris was involved in. johnson: well, were you aware that if emmett scanlon had not doublecrossed tom evans at a state democratic convention, it probably would have been him, rather than you, who would have had tom evans' …
General Harry H. Vaughan Oral History Interview, January 14, 1963
… truman. he brought harry truman down and introduced him to his uncle, and that's the first connection truman had. old tom pendergast wanted to have some window dressing and truman was really window dressing for him because he could say, "well, … i see mr. lewis, he's always asking about mr. truman, how he's getting along and everything. morrissey: you say you've met tom pendergast? vaughan: no, i never met him. i've seen him -- i saw him in kansas city on a number of occasions, but i never … lee's staff, vic messall and two stenographers that the congressman had had. morrissey: do you remember much about tom evans in the 1940 campaign? vaughan: no, i don't know much about tom evans and the 1940 campaign. tom evans was active …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interviews
… views of, 1260-1261 civil rights, in the truman administration, 1259-1263 , 1271-1274 clark, bennett, 75-77 clark, tom, as u.s. attorney general, 774-775 clark, tom, foreign aid, role in, 1179 clark, vernon l., 636 , 1653 clayton, william l. (will), 1107-1111 clifford, clark, 927-943 , … of 1946, 555 essen, germany, as a strategic target in world war ii, 480-481 europe, reconstruction of, plans for, 507-511 evans, tom, 127 , 128 , 131 excess profits tax, 1684 , 1701-1703 , 1846-1849 , 1898-1907 exchange rates, 1814-1817 , …
General Harry H. Vaughan Oral History Interviews
… harry h., relations with as military aide to the president, 134-136 and the white house staff, 100 erkin, feridun c., 117 evans, m. r. (bob), 39-40 evans, tom l., 39 fair deal, 153 fields, alonzo, 102 first national bank, st. louis, mo., 41 "five-percenters inquiry", 104-107 … 119 patterson, joseph medill, 119 pearson, drew, 107 , 153 pendergast, james m., 3 , 5 , 12 , 29 pendergast, thomas j, (tom), 12 , 29 , 36 perlmeter, irving, 90 poling, daniel a., 132 potsdam conference, 83-84 , 116 , 148 president’s advisory …
Anthony A. Buford Oral History Interview
… you mentioned jim aylward, and that you were a friend of his. in 1934, as you know it was up for consideration as to whom tom pendergast would select for the candidate. it's been written that james aylward -- and i believe shannon, and perhaps … i think that it was probably aylward's idea and jim pendergast's idea to select harry truman, and they probably sold it to tom pendergast. fuchs: did you say you were acquainted with mr. pendergast? buford: oh, yes. [14] fuchs: what are your … for kansas city, and they also had a liquor business. i knew them in that way. fuchs: were you acquainted with tom evans? buford: oh, yes, i knew tom evans, very well. after truman was elected we kept up our correspondence, and i was in …
Lewis T. Barringer Oral History Interview
… long to settle who was going to be the vice president. the delegates moved very quickly to take mr. truman. fuchs: did tom evans first make your acquaintance at the 1944 convention, or did you know him prior to this? barringer: i believe it was in … there? barringer: i believe he did. fuchs: what hotel did you stay at? barringer: palmer house. fuchs: palmer house. was tom evans at the palmer house and was he there before you arrived? barringer: i'm not sure what hotel he was staying in. i …
Harry H. Vaughan, March 20, 1976 Oral History Interview
… was walking with me that time i met truman. he and i were over in the 130th. jim pendergast, who was the nephew of old tom, was a great admirer of truman's, and great friend of his. they'd served together; and jim persuaded his uncle to back … [9] and pendergast was a little provoked, but there was nothing they could do about it. because when roosevelt called tom pendergast in 1938, i think it was, something like that -- there was a contest in the senate for majority leader and the … charlie ross, and the great friend of truman's that died a year or so ago, he was the head of the crown drug company, tom evans, tom evans who was on one of the truman library board; there were about seven or eight of us for breakfast there, …
Charles F. Curry Oral History Interview
… be done, but did not have the cash. by the time of the sale, i had only two others committed -- e. kemper carter and tom evans, and i decided to go ahead and bid it in and take a four-sixths interest for myself. i advised vivian that i would go … e. g. huston, and she gave a memorandum which stated she held title for e. kemper carter for one-sixth interest and for tom evans for one-sixth, and myself for four-sixths interest respectively. fuchs: and there was a $13,000 mortgage remaining …
Robert L. Sweeney Oral History Interview
… office employee. i sent out invitations. an invitation was sent to mr. truman. mr. truman didn't come, but he sent mr. tom evans to represent him at my retirement. i retired in the postmaster's office. congressman bolling was there. randall jessee … fern beck. thomas webster is a studious, very fine person. he's highly educated. he was a friend of mr. truman's too. tom webster told me, no later than yesterday, that mr. truman told him that he encouraged those boys to go on to college, and …
Matthew Connelly Oral History Interviews
… clark, bennett, 138 clark, charles patrick, 5 , 9 , 13 , 22 , 31 , 42 , 46 , 50 , 56 , 60 background of, 15-16 clark, tom c., 162 , 164 , 358 clayton, william c., 390 cleveland, mississippi, 391 , 392 clifford, clark, 150-151 , 153 , 155 , 157 … organizations (cio), 104-105 , 430 congressional liaison during the truman administration, 221-229 connally, senator tom, 65 , 149 connelly, matthew j., 6 , 12-13 , 15 , 102 , 293 , 294 appointments secretary, duties as, 129-130 army camp … , 427-428 , 438 , 448 truman, harry s., transition between administrations, 127 , 128 elsey, george, 155 , 205-206 , 302 evans, tom l., 148 ewing, oscar r., 266 , 267-268 excelsior springs, missouri, 306 farley, james, 215 , 216 federal bureau of …
Frederick J. Bowman Oral History Interview
… and had to each ride a horse up there and i went along as instrument sergeant, and he took a fellow named bob [milton r.] evans from louisville, who then was, oh, he weighed about 115 pounds; and he took al [albert a.] ridge, a kid from kansas … in the meantime, of course, all the time when i remember when mr. truman was first running for the senate in kansas city, tom [thomas e.] murphy, who was one of the fellows in that battery, called me up one day and said, "we're trying to raise a … city. i don't know what he would do other than his just regular duties as united states marshal. fuchs: did you run into tom evans there at the convention? bowman: yeah, i used to see tom around quite a bit, he was very active. fuchs: who all was …
James R. Fuchs Oral History Interview, June 20, 1979
… any other personalities that stick out in your mind during the years that truman was still around? fuchs: well, of course, tom evans was very close to him as you may know--a kansas city millionaire and one-time drugstore magnate, and then . . . poen: … with what i've heard otherwise; but, anyhow, they were very good friends; and i believe i was a very good friend of tom evans, because over the years he was around a lot, being treasurer of the library corporation that built the building, …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, December 8, 1967
… of the state. who helped function in that part of the state? snyder: well, now, there was his great friend a druggist, tom evans. tom was a longtime, loyal friend, very helpful throughout mr. truman's career and still is a very, very trustworthy friend of …
Rufus B. Burrus Oral History Interview, November 8, 1985
… a newspaper once in a while, which is out of context probably, without any real support. johnson: i suppose you did meet tom pendergast on occasion. do you have some recollections of his demeanor, what [150] kind of person he seemed to be? … of pendergast, which threw the organization into disarray, i suppose. did jim pendergast take over the organization after tom pendergast was convicted? burrus: i think it fell to him to do it, and he's probably the one that did it. i never had any … from kansas that the general was going to be here and that he was going to come calling on mr. truman. he got word to tom evans on that, and tom evans called me and said, "tell mr. truman." i replied, "all right." so that's how we learned about …
Edward D. McKim Oral History Interview, February 19, 1964
… it was either wednesday or thursday -- one or two days in there, they escape me at the moment... fuchs: excuse me, was tom evans up there at this time? mckim: no, not at that time. fuchs: did you know tom evans then? [101] mckim: yes. fuchs: how long had you known him? mckim: oh, i'd known him for several years before that. …
Andrew J. Biemiller Oral History Interview
… zablocki along. so, we went on down to the white house, and i had been advised previously by the former [ 19] justice tom clark, who was then the attorney general, and by my old friend oscar chapman of the interior department, that i had … i said, "you know. mr. president, one of the few things i've never understood about you, is why you opposed my old friend tom hennings in the primary for united states senator in missouri this past year." he looks at me as though i'm very stupid, … he said, "i just wanted all you fellows to hear an announcement i'm about to make. i have persuaded my old friend tom evans to be treasurer of the "bolling for reelection committee." bolling didn't know it. it ended any incipient move on the …
Robert P. Weatherford, Jr. Oral History Interview
… foundation formed here in independence in 1948, or '49? what do you recall of that? [17] weatherford: mayor sermon and tom evans had talked about this. so mayor sermon set up a non-profit foundation, and we sold little brass medallions in an effort … out at blevins davis' farm on the lee's summit road, up in the billiard room on the third floor. well, mayor sermon and tom evans got into a little bit of an argument over where the library should be built and tom says, "the president wanted it …
George E. Allen Oral History Interview
… came in. there was a boy named -- the druggist that joined us on the train too, what was his name? from kansas city -- evans, tom l. evans. and a lot of other fellows came in. but they were nominated. my friends had been the roosevelt people up until … i had been commissioner of the district, and i had done a lot of things for roosevelt. hess: what part did tom evans play in the campaign? allen: well, he was a personal friend. he was with us on the train quite a bit. and a boy …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 29, 1967
… security bill, justice sponsored, subsequently, 1949, introduced as s-595, 81st congress. horan, justice, powwow with tom lynch and me. that's a reference to the fact that a young lawyer named mike horan from justice came over and tried to argue tom lynch, the council and me into dropping all our objections and all our provisions in amendment of their bill, although … what he could. i had lunch with jack anderson [that's drew pearson's partner]. in the afternoon, i talked with john evans, who was state, who [1082] mentioned lebanon star . i talked to larry henderson [he was the staff director of the …
Mildred Lee Dryden (Mrs. William J.) Oral History Interview
… claimed they'd been in there a lot of times, i could tell you whether they were or weren't. [57] fuchs: do you recall tom evans visiting him? dryden: in later years i did, but not the first years. he was up there pretty often on business during … say this, [59] i know he wasn't very close to mr. truman. i would have known a little bit about that. fuchs: what about tom van sant? dryden: yes, he was one of the men we call our "key men" down in -- what is the name of the town where …
Edgar G. Hinde Oral History Interview
… non-partisan board of engineers, which was composed of old general [e.m.] stayton, who is now dead (he was a democrat) and tom veatch of black and veatch, who was a republican. they supervised this whole process and consequently, they got, i think … and he didn't bother him any. they got along fine. i think the old man had a lot of respect for harry. fuchs: we know that tom pendergast had a concrete company, did he also have contracting companies, that you know of? hinde: oh, he was mixed up … in '48 -- he was going to win and always talked it up around here? hinde: there was none of them around here. and old tom evans didn't think so either, regardless of what he said. [118] tom evans didn't think he was going to win anymore than the …
Charles S. Murphy Oral History Interview, July 15, 1969
… at that time, john snyder was secretary of the treasury, and the chairman of the federal reserve board at that time was tom [thomas b.] mccabe, a man who had been appointed by president truman on the recommendation of john snyder and he was an … to the president and talked with him about it and then he, in turn, im sure, talked to john snyder about it at least. tom mccabe, mccabe was chairman of the federal reserve board. and the president decided that he would appoint bill martin if … and hed let me know. well, i sent him a copy of it and i never heard from him. and i have just received today, from carol evans who used to be his secretary, a request for a copy of this letter to use in connection with the stevenson papers that …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 30, 1970
… he represented the wealthy classes. hess: the wall street classes. nixon: yes. that was his image. i had no criticism of tom dewey. i knew him well in earlier years when he was attorney general of new york and later governor. but i'm trying to … speech. (by this time, truman was delivering platform speeches very well, with great emphasis, and it went over.) he let tom dewey have it, and almost for the first time, because he had been campaigning against the do-nothing no-good republican … a continuous celebration in his room, of the kind that you expect in a little political gathering. friends coming in. tom evans, and roger sermon (the mayor of independence), and his local friends all came in to [691] congratulate him and the …
Charles S. Murphy Oral History Interviews
… party platform in 1952, 368-369 , 371-374 civil rights program, 224-231 clark, champ, 54 clark, john, 122 clark, tom, 328 , 333-334 clay, lucius, 319 , 320 clifford, clark, 2 , 3 , 13 , 26 , 30 , 71 , 78 , 90 , 91 , 92-93 , 117 , 118 , … 273-274 , 288 , 450 employment act of 1946, 266 enarson, harold, 99 enrolled bills, executive action on, 246-251 , 270-271 evans, carol, 351 ewing, oscar, 149 fair employment practices commission, 229-231 feeney, joseph, 111-112 , 257-260 , 447 …
Oscar R. Ewing Oral History
… rights plank, in the democratic convention platform of 1948, 303-304 clapper, ray(mond), 76 clark, ramsey, 116 clark, tom, 116 , 147-148 , 151 , 164 clifford, clark, 119 , 127 , 140 , 141 , 143-144 , 305 , 306 , 310 , 313 , 316 , 351 ewing, … 10-15 , 20 , 22 , 27 hillman, sidney, awarded the meritorious public service award named in honor of, 360 hughes, charles evans, sr., relationship with, 51-54 hughes, schurman and dwight, cases handled as a lawyer for: a discussion of , 35-45 … 83 house ways and means committee, 361 howard university, efforts to train more negro doctors, 250-257 hughes, charles evans, sr., 34 , 35-37 , 44 , 46 , 87 , 171 ewing, oscar, relationship, 51-54 raconteur, as a, 54 hughes, charles evans, jr., …
Clark Clifford Oral History
… colorado, 337 comintern, 254 , 456 commerce department, 174 , 175-177 commodity credit corporation, 279 connally, senator tom, 143 connelly, matthew j., 276 , 277 , 383 , 450-453 containment, 84-87 the crucial decade , 355 czechoslovakia, 79 , 254 … william d., 383 henderson, loy, 96 ho chi minh, 247-253 hoffman, paul, 364 hoover, herbert, 342 , 343 hughes, charles evans, 187 humphrey, hubert, 264 humphrey-biemiller civil rights plank, 231-232 , 264-266 illinois, 54 , 325 , 366 inaugural …
Vere C. Leigh Oral History Interview
… no, i'll tell you who can tell you about truman on that night, the first time we were under fire, is "smack" [milton r.] evans and fred bowman. those two were with him, i believe, that night, and that was the first time that he was under fire as … office? [ 71] leigh: there's no secrets in this world. it's pretty well-known that through jimmy pendergast truman met tom pendergast, although it seems to me that shannon was in the picture someplace in there. shannon was strong in the … nobody asked me and i didn't volunteer. the day after election we knew he was going to be president, i went down and gave tom evans a check for $100 and i've always felt [ 92] like a heel about it since. but they had a pretty good debt that they …
Oral History Interview
… kennedy period - nicholas katzenbach, former attorney general; frank mankiewicz, robert kennedy's former press secretary ; tom wicker of the new york times; sander vanocur of nbc; stewart udall, former secretary of the interior, and others. we … we would relate the subject matter as much as we could to the background and interests of that person. if we brought in tom wicker, a distinguished journalist, he would perhaps meet with the nearby college journalism classes, or classes in … nominations committee selected me to be a candidate for president of the society, a close election that i lost to frank evans. i also wrote significant articles during this period for the american archivist , history news , the public historian …
Oral History Interviews
… cooperation. 38 pages. clague, ewan. commissioner of labor statistics, department of labor, 1946-54. 125 pages. clark, tom c. attorney general of the united states, 1945-49; associate justice of the u.s. supreme court, 1949-67. two interviews, … u.n. conciliation commission for palestine, 1949; chairman, u.s. advisory commission on information, 1948-50. 54 pages. evans, tom l. kansas city businessman and friend of harry s. truman. 771 pages. ewing, oscar r. vice chairman, democratic national …
Edward D. McKim Oral History Interview, February 17, 1964
… must have known that when a guy's jaw was broken with one punch, it had to be sandifer. fuchs: who was colonel "smack" evans? mckim: "smack" evans was the guidon of the battery. he is now vice-president of a bank in louisville, kentucky, and … breakfast with joe guffey the next morning. then, joe said that president roosevelt was coming through the state and young tom taggart and he and truman drove over to meet the train. i think they met it at, oh, i don't know, up from french lick … that's all i can have there. the only other job, the best paying job in the county, is county collector. i've talked to tom pendergast and tom says that i can have that job for eight years, and it pays about $20,000 a year. on the other hand, …
Tom C. Clark Oral History Interview
… tom c. clark oral history interview oral history interview with tom c. clark attorney general of the united states, 1945-49; associate justice of the united states supreme court, 1949-67. … i was not. so they took all of my work away from me in the department. and then mr. hughes, chief justice [charles evans] hughes, directed the federal trial courts to set down for a trial a backlog of war risk insurance and other cases. all …
Ted J. Sanders Oral History Interview
… told this story. pretty big story. i went up on sunday morning, and went into the suite. truman was there along with tom evans, who was a warm friend of truman. he had four crown drugstores in kansas city; that meant quite a bit at that time. he … the grandstand. and canfil said, "jesus christ, if the wallace people knew hannegan had, you know, been in on this thing. tom, you and ted (that's me) go out and get those posters." we got in a cab. i had a sergeant at arms [35] badge. we got …
Eugene Donnelly and Edward Meisburger Oral History Interview
… world war ii. we had a man who was an orderly that's as low as you can get, an orderly--to captain truman, name of milton evans, who rose to be--in louisville, kentucky he was a banker and belonged to all kinds of organizations. he's now the … of him by 8,000 votes. so that was probably his toughest political campaign. and then, of course, at that time, you know, tom pendergast had fallen from grace up here and been sentenced to the united states penitentiary for income tax evasion. … thomas e., 6 129th field artillery canteen, camp doniphan, oklahoma, 3-4 order of kentucky colonels, 45 pendergast, tom, 50 pershing, john j., 29 , 31 pickwick hotel, kansas city, missouri, 34 president hotel, kansas city, missouri, 33 …
E.W. Kenworthy Oral History Interview
… in washington, and the idea of having a kind of a daily letter to the ambassadors abroad originated with a man named tom eliot who had served in the embassy in london as special assistant to ambassador winant, and he brought the idea back. … not knowing where to begin. there was a kind of deputy there for negro problems on the defense level, whose name was jim evans, who was a very fine man, a graduate of mit, but from my point of view he was perfectly useless to the committee. he … owi, that's why i hired him. hess: i have here a list of the permanent staff, and those listed are yourself, joseph h. b. evans, who was associate executive secretary, and it says "deceased." kenworthy: he died. hess: and beatrice williams …
Sir Cuthbert Clegg Oral History Interview
… with us. there was arthur deakin, who was in the same union that mr. bevin had built up, the transport union workers, and tom williamson, lord williamson now, who was the head of the general and municipal workers and will lawther who was the mine … who were i suppose (what would now be regarded) rather right wing, williamson and the man who died last week, lincoln evans, an extremely nice man. he was a steel workers' fellow, very level-headed, decent chap and sensible. i thought an awful … member, 1-34 congress of industrial organizations, 6 deakin, arthur, 11 , 17 economic cooperation administration, 10 evans, lincoln, 34 federation of british industry, 7 general electric, 4 , 22 general municipal workers union (british), 11 …
J. Leonard Reinsch Oral History Interview
… drove me to the station. the lamar, missouri acceptance speech was at a location selected by the candidate. i [10] went to tom evans' radio station at the suggestion of the candidate to make arrangements for a rehearsal of his speech. obviously, the … to work with than the republicans did in 1936, when al [alfred m.] landon had so much of a problem with radio delivery. in tom evans' studio we recorded the speech and played it back and it was apparent that the speed was still part of the reflex …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History
… eisenhower,mrs. dwight david (mamie), 967 eisenhower, john, 142 elbe, 304 , 307 , 308 elsey, george, 288 , 391 , 566 , 616 evans, tom l., 690 excelsior springs, missouri, 681-682 f fair deal, 696 fala speech. see white house correspondents dinner, … difficulty of guarding, 349-352 senator, as a, 64-65 shortcomings of, 1043-1050 smith, merriman , reacting to his joining tom dewey's campaign train, 976-979 south korea, learns of the invasion of, 497 speaking ability of, 159-160 , 565-569 staff …
Cornelius J. Mara Oral History Interviews
… that he came to washington for assistance from pearson. pearson was on very close terms with the then attorney general, tom clark. and, as a matter of fact, [ 50] pearson gave quite a party for this attorney, and i think clark was at it. but … who would come in? did you see very many of the kansas city people? mara: not too many. not too many. occasionally. hess: tom evans. did you see him around the white house? mara: who? hess: a man by the name of tom evans. mara: we didn't see much of …
John K. Hulston Oral History Interview
… on the phone, according to my father, and told that harry was a very fine county judge in jackson county, and that he had tom pendergast’s support, and that he was going to be the next senator of the united states and that he’d like to bring him … behind that. lester cox was interested in radio and television stations and had owned half of kwto; and half of kcmo with tom e. evans. johnson: but you don't know of any radio schools being... hulston: no, i don't, but i do know that cox was very [52] …
John M. Leddy Oral History Interview
… and i also had a particular role for certain provisions, but many parts of it were broken up, as i recall. john [walker] evans, for example, worked on the free-trade area provisions. on the balance-of-payments provisions, the treasury people … in the committee at that time. anyhow, after a period of a week or ten days we put together a good report. i worked with tom martin who was the staff man in the committee. mills was successful in getting an 18 to 7 vote in favor of this thing. … 32 lend-lease agreement, 29 , 30 , 31 , 47 london, england, 49 marks, herbert s., 41 marshall plan, 75 , 77 martin, tom, 79 meade, james, 28 , 33 meany, george, 58 mexican trade agreement, 7 mexico, 13 millikins, eugene d., 75 mills, wilbur, …
Rufus B. Burrus Oral History Interview, November 20, 1985
… "that's right." i said, "twelve o'clock?" "oh yes, oh yes." about fifteen minutes later i had a telephone [233] call from tom evans. tom said, "rufe, did the boss ask you to go to lunch today?" i said, "yes." "did he tell you what he wanted? "no." "well, he …
Matthew J. Connelly Oral History Interview, November 30, 1967
… brought leonard reinsch to kansas city. leonard reinsch and i made [148] arrangements with a friend of mr. truman's, named tom evans, who owned a radio station. he had a studio set aside at his station and we'd have mr. truman come up there to work on … yes, a committee of senators went out to announce to him that he had been selected. we had a very funny experience. tom connally was to introduce him, the senator from texas. we looked at senator connally's speech, and it was too long. we …
David C. Bell Oral History Interview
… only themselves to blame. hess: in that campaign, mr. truman seems to make the 80th congress his main protagonist and not tom dewey. why do you think that decision was made? why did he, more or less, run against congress rather than against the … was because the "republican no-good, do-nothing, 80th congress" presented him with issues that were clear and effective. tom dewey was a fairly elusive target. he had been a reasonably good governor of new york and hadn't taken many stands on … of any major adviser of the president who was a private citizen. he had a close friend that i saw now and then named tom evans. i remember that tom evans, who was in the drug business, did discuss with the president some kind of a fair trade bill …
Oscar R. Ewing Oral History Interview, April 29, 1969
… prominence of its graduates. bob taft was in our class; he was president of the law review in my last year on it. charles evans hughes, jr. was president of the law review my first year on it. then we had jim kem who practiced law in kansas city … i was still a partner in my new york law firm of hughes, hubbard and ewing. the senior partner of that firm was charles evans hughes, jr. apparently one of our clients, i never knew which one, took great offense at my being active in democratic … as a candidate that they wanted to pick a winner for 1940. fuchs: who else was mentioned? ewing: both senator taft and tom dewey were sparring for the nomination but both lacked the charisma that willkie possessed. he was very attractive …
Dillon S. Myer Oral History Interview, Chap V-VIII
… the record about the work of county agents. before reporting for duty at evansville, i asked the county agent leader mr. tom coleman what i should do. he said "go down and go to work. you know as much about the job as i do." so i was on my own in … one case where one of the other supervisors visited a chap of this type and when he got back to the office our supervisor, tom coleman, asked him how; "mac" was getting along and he said "well, he’s so busy telling you how busy he is he doesn’t … a new agency within the department known as the agricultural conservation and adjustment administration. "spike" evans who had [180] been for quite some time chief of the agricultural adjustment administration was made administrator and i …
Theodore Achilles Oral History Interview
… dean acheson on the whys, wherefores, and provisions of the treaty. he learned fast. our second job was to butter up tom connally, who had succeeded vandenberg as chairman of the committee, and whose nose was slightly out of joint because we … i headed straight for the secretary's office. dean already had a bottle of bourbon out of his desk drawer. and he, barbara evans, his longtime secretary, and ernie gross, the legal adviser, were celebrating. i joined in. on the second bourbon i … treaty, 73-74 brussels treaty, 16 , 20 , 121 byrnes, james f., 4-7 byroade, henry a., 91 carter, pat, 33 connally, senator tom, 15 , 48 , 54 , 69 , 132 cooper, senator john sherman, 85 council of foreign ministers meetings: in london in 1945, 3-7 …
Robert K. Walsh Oral History Interview
… but charlie ross had these morning briefings and very frequently delegate it to somebody else. there was a fellow named tom blake, does that name sound familiar to you? hess: yes, but... walsh: at the press office ross was always there, but was … [183] [james b.] reston, well, even he has moved on, up or on. they've pretty much got a new crowd in the new york times --tom [thomas g.] wicker, and some of those fellows back in my era--wicker's a little younger, but some of those people there, … first view of a presidential candidate. my father, who was not a rabid democrat, he was a jeffersonian, voted for [charles evans] hughes against wilson in 1916. i can remember that very well. he thought that we were getting in the war, for one …
Ewan Clague Oral History Interview
… trends and projections. in essence, [30] i did not in any way change the basic document which had been written by duane evans, jerome cornfield, and marvin hoffenberg. once more, the bureau and i myself escaped any serious repercussions. there … commerce and labor regarding release of, 154-155 employment statistics, joint committee to coordinate release, of, 153-155 evans, duane, 30 family expenditure statistics, 133-139 federal mediation and conciliation service, 53-58 flanders, ralph e., … manion, clarence e., 142 mashburn, lloyd, 144 , 146 mitchell, james p., 146 , 154-155 monthly labor review , 134 marray, tom. 74 myers, francis j., 101 national association of manufacturers, 33 , 34 , 35 nixon, richard m., 136 nourse, edwin g., …