Word: celler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
...made no recommendations on what should be done about the trend to bigness. But Committee Chairman Celler thought that the antitrust statutes should be tightened up. His subcommittee will take testimony from Government bureaus, labor leaders and industrialists for the remainder of the year, and will probably have a fresh batch of antitrust legislation ready for Congress next January...
...only House A League basketball game, celler-dwelling Leverett preserved a scanty lead throughout to win over Dunster...
...present crop of Cadet ball carriers, but he wonders how they can gain "behind a small, weak line." Where will the Elis finish in the Ivy League? "It's quite possible that Yale will lose seven out of nine games next fall and wind up in the league celler ... why the Elis over scheduled Vanderbilt and Wisconsin is a mystery...
Brooklyn's Representative Emanuel Celler, a longtime Zionist, demanded from the floor of the House: "What goes on here?" He thought he spotted the man responsible for the anti-partition talk: Loy Henderson, chief of the State Department's Near East and African Division. He said that Henderson was "enthusiastic but misguided," and accused him of "intriguing behind the scenes to void decisions made on higher levels." For his known opposition to partition, Henderson had been the target for Zionist attacks before. But Celler's charge of "intriguing" was wide of the mark...