Word: celler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Government career of Peter Strobel seemed to be drawing to an end after three days of hearings before Representative Emanuel Celler's House Judiciary subcommittee, which is probing possible conflict of interest of businessmen in Government...
...some politicos, who have always found bankers a popular target, the merger trend is cause for alarm. Cried Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "An alarming concentration of financial power in the hands of a few banks." Celler is busily pushing a bill to restrict mergers, and has lined up top Administration support behind it. Both Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes, who has investigated some of the mergers, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin have come out in favor of the bill. While they feel that the mergers probably have not caused any lessening...
...Hill newsmen informally chose him as the Congressman with the most press releases. He once said that the recipe for success in Congress is to exhibit "the brashness of a sophomore . . . the perseverance of a bill collector." Last week, in the news vacuum that followed Congress' adjournment, Congressman Celler was exhibiting all the brashness and perseverance that he could muster...
...Forthright Stand. Congressman Celler had long since taken a bead on a likely target: Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and the businessmen who work for the Government without compensation in the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. As chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Celler invited Secretary Weeks to come up and testify about the council. When Weeks replied that he did not know when he might find time, Committee Chairman Celler pronounced the answer evasive. And evasive answers, he went on, were a subject he knew something about. Turning to a fellow committeeman, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, Celler...
After the guffaws died down, Celler switched from Secretary Weeks to the council's Executive Director Walter White, ordered him to bring along all his files. For a full day Celler and his committee staff questioned White, who came to the stand with a giant packing box filled with old press handouts and one thin folder of financial documents. Secretary Weeks, said Witness White, had refused him permission to bring along B.A.C.'s official files, which fill 35 cabinets. Celler cried that B.A.C. is "a sort of hybrid organization ... It may do a great deal of good...