Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snub. Last year President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...
Meanwhile President Harriman and his moderate followers still thought they could avert an open break with the Administration by tempering the Chamber's resolutions - traditionally the planks in the U. S. Business platform. But the 1,500 delegates gathered in the Chamber's building across Lafayette Park from the White House determined to put on record once & for all their various New Deal grudges. In the most uproarious session in the Chamber's history, with the proposals of the resolutions committee often rewritten on the floor, the Chamber declared its opposition to 1) the Social Security Bill...
...duty of informing the Administration of the Chamber's will fell upon smiling, long-nosed Harper Sibley, the Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois...
...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...
Having received the Roper Council's protestations of allegiance, President Roosevelt briskly dismissed the Chamber's criticism as something to be expected when social reforms were taking shape. He said he had run into the same thing when pushing social legislation as a Senator in the New York Legislature. As then, he now believes that the majority of businessmen actually favor his measures. Trade organizations seldom voice the real opinion of the businessmen they are supposed to represent, he declared, and he was sure that by & large Business is with him. What interested him about the Chamber speeches...