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This was Senator Sam G. Bratton...
Long agitated in Washington is a proposal to shift control of the airways from the Department of Commerce to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Such a proposal is embodied in a bill introduced by Senator Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico. Instead of the present Department of Commerce certificate of authority, indicating only fitness to operate, it would require every airline to obtain a certificate of necessity & convenience from the I. C. C., submit to regulation of rates, schedules and finance like the railroads. Says Col. Young of the proposal: "Premature. . . . The industry is too young to be 'frozen' by excessive...
Before Fall started for Santa Fe, President Hoover received a petition for his pardon signed by every member of the New Mexico Legislature, Senators Cutting and Bratton and Governor Seligman. In view of the President's denunciation of public betrayers when he dedicated the Harding tomb last month, it was not considered likely that he would be clement...
Nonetheless Senator Gillett, as chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, listened to Mrs. Sanger and a squad of supporters. Then he listened to her opponents. Assisting him was Senator Sam Gilbert Bratton, 42, of New Mexico. Senator William Edgar Borah. 65. of Idaho, member of the subcommittee, stayed away. Senators' wives crowded the hearing room...