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...company's ground publicist is Cecil ("Stu") Hawley, son of tariff-making Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon. As chief of the company's road information service he annually motors thousands of miles at record speeds. Last August he motored from Manhattan to Los Angeles in 67 hr. 38 min., the record. Also a record was his round trip time...
Master of tariff ceremonies was Oregon's Republican Representative Willis Chatman Hawley, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee and No. 1 House conferee with the Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief...
Certain was the Bill to go to conference within the week. The House conferees would be: Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway, New Jersey's Isaac Bacharach (all regular Republicans) and John Nance Garner of Texas, Mississippi's James William Collier (Democrats). The Senate conferees: Utah's Smoot, Indiana's Watson, California's Shortridge (regular Republicans) and North Carolina's Simmons. Mississippi's Harrison (Democrats). The conference voting will normally be 6-to-4 for high rates. The conferees will become the final tariff writers. In dispute between...
...complaint there was at the committee hearing on Senator Smoot's plan. Beet sugar growers did not think it would give them adequate protection. Farm representatives called it a "risky experiment." Senator Smoot's co-author of the Tariff Bill, Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon, complained the plan should not "be even considered." Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison commented sarcastically on the "fretful condition of this newborn sugar baby." "Certainly," said he, "the sleepless nights Senator Smoot must have spent with this crying curiosity . . . entitle him to a rest...
...month ago, TIME gave an account of the activities of Roland Hayes, Negro tenor. Last week a Negro soprano, Miss Louetta Chatman, was well received at her first appearance at Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. Although not the first Negro to be heard in recital, she was the first to have been trained by a teacher of her own race ? Wilson Lamb...