Word: cappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Judge Woodward quashed the case. He saw the situation thus: that the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to protect individualism and unrestrained competition; that in the 50-odd years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal, and did not act in restraint of trade, since the later legislation sought collectivism and control of harmful competition. Specifically also he noted that the Secretary of Agriculture directly licenses such groups...
Over the whole U. S., however, there was not this same rosy, reciprocal glow. In October Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas complained in a letter to Mr. Hull that the proposed Argentine trade agreement would injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but politely savage answer that it was "folly compounded" for farm spokesmen in the light of the Smoot-Hawley tariff experience, "still to cling to the delusion that the farmer has something to gain from embargo or tariffs...
...Hopefuls: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio, Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Arthur Capper of Kansas, Charles McNary of Oregon, Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
...concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder grew. Best guess was that isolationists had hit on a new scheme to keep out of war: stir up bad feeling over the War debts, which nobody could do better than William Griffin...
...economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth McKellar...