Word: celler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Dealers in Congress, none has a more durable record of sniping at business than Brooklyn's Veteran Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost...
...House, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, took the role of anti-business gadfly. He attacked the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council (a group of top industrialists and financiers), and tried to push through a bill to put bank mergers under the Antitrust Act. At hearings on his anti-bank merger bill, he charged that bank mergers threaten a "free and competitive economy," but his bill died in the Rules Committee...
...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...
Although Senator Herbert Lehman and Representative Emanuel Celler, both Democrats, have introduced a revised omnibus immigration bill, neither the House nor the Senate will consider supporting it. Because it is politically dangerous to arouse the conservatives who do not want the "mongrelizing" effects of increased immigration, the United States today maintains a 30-year-old policy symbolic of the blazing...
Winthrop has improved most noticeably ever last year's top four teams. A year ago the Puritans placed near the celler in both A and B leagues. Leverett won A while Dunster finished first...