Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislative Hobby: Tariff protection for Kentucky's coal, such as he wangled into this year's tax-upping bill. He is typical of that class of Democratic Senators who denounce the Republican policy of protection in general and then support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot...
Noah Haynes Swayne, 60, resigned as president of Burns Bros., largest coal distributor in the U.S. ("Burns Coal Burns'"). An oldtime anthracite man, Mr. Swayne has held high positions in many coal trade associations and clubs, is known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president...
...Secretary Hurley's lifelong acquaintances in Oklahoma scratched their heads. McGinnis? . . . Shooting? . . , They re membered that one of the Hurley brothers was killed in a Mexican revolution. Another was killed by a train. A Hurley sister was accidentally shot. And when Pat was a boy working in a coal mine he once thrashed a bully named Whiteside who later was killed by.someone else. But Pat never shot anybody. And he never had dealings with any John McGinnis. An Oklahoma City newspaperman thought the story had something to do with an editor named John McGuire, now deceased. He seemed to recall...
Legislative hobby: a top-notch tariff on sugar to benefit Louisiana's cane industry. Even Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree...
Strictly speaking, His Serene Highness' action was to accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...