Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate case began the I. C. C. has been bombarded with outside advice and suggestions. Propaganda for and against the roads flowed into its quasi-judicial headquarters in Washington. Boldest, most startling public statement on Ex Parte 103 was made fortnight ago by Philadelphia's Representative James Montgomery Beck, good friend of Pennsylvania R. R. who threatened to instigate Congressional action to strip the I. C. C. of its large powers unless it hastened to grant what the roads asked. When Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas read the Beck broadside he sat down and wrote I. C. C. Chairman...
...astounded. . . . The Beck threat is even more shortsighted and more inopportune than the application of the railroads for this increase. . . . The audacity of his suggestion that the I. C. C. should saddle additional millions of dollars upon the shippers without any study! . . . Where the railroads assert a loss of $400,000,000 in annual income, agriculture took a loss...
Well aware that Senator Capper's letter was designed to sway the Commission's action no less than Congressman Beck's statement, Chairman Brainerd replied thus to him: "You would be warranted in assuming that despite all attempts to in fluence improperly the Commission's judgment, it will continue to render its decisions based upon 'the record as made, undisturbed by all the winds that blow...
...that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note to Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck, on the Tribune's bulletin board...
...Dear Mr. Beck: I have not dignified the rumor of the sale of the Tribune nor do I intend to do so. But if any of our people are worried you can tell them the Tribune will not be sold in my time...