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...bill that has passed the House and is up in the Senate) would achieve the President's object without criticism. Chair-man Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee which sponsored this bill had no enthusiasm for the President's proposal. One committeeman, Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, growled last week as he left the White House that he was opposed "to packing the Court with six new members." If it was going to be packed he thought two new members were plenty...
...York's Celler, Bickstein, Sirovich, Peyser, Bloom; New Jersey's Bacharach; Connecticut's Kopplemann; Pennsylvania's Ellen- bogen; Illinois' Sabath; California's Kahn
...committee of the House of Representatives investigating bankruptcy practices last week got under way in Manhattan with an investigation of Irving Trust Co. which since 1929 has been appointed a standing receiver in bankruptcy in cases arising in the Federal Courts of the Southern District of New York. Representative Celler of New York, setting out to prove this "monopoly," found that since its appointment Irving Trust has paid $3,486,000 in legal fees to 361 lawyers for handling 4,419 bankruptcy cases, that the firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood got most ($409,000 for handling eleven cases) ; that...
...Passed (168-to-160) a bill by New York's' Celler amending the Volstead Act so that physicians may prescribe medicinal liquor and beer without quantitative restrictions; sent it to the Senate. During the debate Texas' Blanton pointed out that the temporary presiding officer, Maryland's Palmisano, was a onetime bartender. Quitting the rostrum Representative Palmisano retorted: "I've never denied it. That's why I'm against Prohibition...
...California crash, worst in nearly a year, helped to attract attention to a bill introduced into Congress last week by publicity-loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these...