Word: cappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bravado gone, Gangster Diamond faced a maximum sentence of four years, a fine of $11,000. Presiding at his trial was U. S. Judge Richard Joseph Hopkins of Kansas, the militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
...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 Ezra Brainerd: "I am astonished...
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...
Apparently in reply to the Star, President Hoover soon telegraphed Kansas' Senator Capper: "A considerable part of the price difficulties of Kansas wheat farmers is due to the present paralysis of the export market arising from economic crisis in Central Europe. . . . The major problem has been solved by aid given to Germany in postponement of reparations . . . and I am confident we will bring about a solution to the remaining difficulties. I know of no greater immediate service to the Kansas farmer than re-establishment of normal economic life in that [German] quarter...
...famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...