Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow Co...
...parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
George Bruce Cortelyou, 67, progressively Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...
Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...