Word: chairmanship
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Tennessee, Tammany and Texas combined last week to name the new Speaker of the House-Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois. Out of the deal Tennessee got the floor leadership. Tammany the assistant floor leadership, Texas the chairmanship of the potent Committee on Appropriations...
...appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated by Mr. Byrns...
...Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General...
Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., 31, vice president & treasurer of Freeport Texas Co. (sulphur) was elected president succeeding Eugene Levering Norton who stepped up to a less active chairmanship. Last month able President Williams marketed $2,500,000 of Freeport's preferred stock through his good friend (since Harvard Business School days), Partner Albert H. Gordon of Kidder, Peabody...
...opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle...