Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee managed to carve this tax down to a vestigial nubbin of 2½^% last year, Franklin Roosevelt was so angry he would not sign the bill...
Early one morning last week Franklin Roosevelt called to him Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Chairman Doughton and Representative Jere Cooper of the House Ways & Means committee, and in their presence he strangled his only 1939 rabbit. He told them that the Hanes plan must not be given to Congress as an Administration plan-he wanted Congress merely to extend present corporate taxes which expire December 31, and excise taxes which expire June...
...Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture in fiscal 1940. He earnestly asked unanimous consent to reconsider the $383,000,000 which the Senate had added to the House version of the bill. Would not his colleagues give second thought before approving the biggest Farm Bill in U. S. history...
...pressagent for Senator Arthur Vandenberg's bizarre "spook" debate with him over CBS in the 1936 campaign. One day last month, however, in the White House's fireside-less Diplomatic Room from which all the fireside chatshave been broadcast, Franklin Roosevelt sat down with National Emergency Council Chairman Lowell Mellett and recorded a 15-minute interview...
When Franklin Roosevelt journeys from Washington to Hyde Park, he generally takes the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. It is his favorite passenger line and its 78-year-old president, Daniel Willard, is his good friend. Genial Dan Willard is also the good friend of RFC Chairman Jesse Jones and has many a warm admirer in Congress, where he is regarded as a liberal with a good railroad labor record. In the last year and a half this widespread affection for President Willard is about all that has saved the sore-pressed B. & 0. from reorganization...