Word: celler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's New Dealing Representative Emanuel Celler cited the fact that he would become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee as an argument for electing a Democratic Congress this fall. Accusing Defense Secretary Charles Wilson of favoritism in awarding defense contracts, Celler cried: "I promise you, Wilson, that when I become chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I shall investigate you, General Motors, General Electric and Westinghouse...
Umbrellas to Mend. While the Commerce Committee was giving them what they wanted, a Judiciary subcommittee headed by Brooklyn's anti-Fair Trade Emanuel Celler held hearings on a similar bill. Witness Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association, cried that the small retailer is entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed...
...York's trustbusting Democrat, Representative Emanuel Celler, buttonholed Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson at a dinner party one evening. The U.S. needed more aluminum, said Celler, and wasn't getting it fast enough. Who, he demanded, was to blame? Charlie Wilson answered frankly: if any one man was to blame, it was Manny Celler...
Wilson had good reason for his candid answer. When he decided last winter that the U.S. needed a second boost in aluminum capacity, he wanted to get it from those who had the know-how to supply it -Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, the industry's Big Three. But Celler, who heads a House subcommittee investigating monopolies, objected. The U.S. had just beaten down Alcoa's monopoly, said he; now it was threatened by an "oligarchy" in aluminum. When the Justice Department gravely nodded its head in agreement...
...Three: an 85,000-ton Texas plant for Alcoa, a 120,000-ton expansion for Kaiser, 20,000 tons of new capacity for Reynolds at Longview, Wash. Total approved expansion for the Big Three since Korea: 545,000 tons. Approved expansion by newcomers: 0. Even Manny Celler and the Justice Department had finally come around to the view that if the U.S. wanted more aluminum fast, it had to go to the people who had the money and experience to produce it fast...