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...Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...
...visitors of the week: Union Pacific's William Averell Harriman, who discussed a Business Advisory Council meeting at Sun Valley, Idaho; Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the FCC, to discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator William Borah, to discuss his bill to enforce anti-trust laws through Federal licensing of corporations. ¶ Presidential plans: a ten-day fishing trip starting this week; a two-month cruise along the west coast of South America next summer "if possible...
...House's complex capital gains tax, substituting a flat 15% on capital gains arising from the sale of assets held over 18 months, reducing taxes on short term capital gains and capital gains by taxpayers in low income brackets; 3) an amendment introduced by Idaho's Borah removing exemption provisions from all future issues of Government securities...
Republican balance sheet as of April 1 is much less impressive. The party has no leader. The only claimants to the title -Messrs. Hoover, Landon, Borah et al.- are not compelling personalities. G. O. P. had 17,000,000 votes at last count but these were able to elect only five Governors, seven Senators, 89 Congressmen. It has no patronage to speak of. In place of able Mr. Farley it has brash Mr. Hamilton, whose talents, whatever they may be, have not had a chance to develop in the atmosphere of stale controversy which has surrounded him since...
...deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting it. heard monopoly-hating Senator Borah claim that "four or five big oil companies" control the price of gas and oil and have done so "for four or five years...