Word: cappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippine exports. The House bill provides independence after eight years' probation. The Senate debate was trivial, shallow, time-killing, few members believing the bill would escape a Presidential veto. Farm lobbyists, eager to put Philippine sugar and vegetable oils outside the U. S. tariff wall, operated from Senator Capper's committee room just off the Senate lobby...
...President failed us, it is not too much to say there would not have been a bank open in America today?Kansas' Senator Capper...
...important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona...
...Passed a Resolution by Kansas' Capper to distribute 40,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to the needy; sent it to the House where Chairman John Barton Payne of the Red Cross told a committee that, if asked to do so, his organization would undertake the wheat's distribution...
Congressional committees found no shortage of legislative proposals to start work on. In ten days 6.383 bills were introduced in the House. 2,311 in the Senate, the great majority on private matters for aggrieved constituents. Michigan's Senator Couzens wanted a railroad probe while Senators Capper of Kansas and Hastings of Delaware wanted short selling scrutinized. Senator McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard...