Word: committeees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Of more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20...
Banker Rentschler escaped badgering at the committee's hands largely because of his simple manner of testifying, his refusal to be drawn into arguments with Senators.
Transgression. Many a citizen wondered whether the Lobby Committee had not transgressed even senatorial privilege when it examined another potent Eastern banker, Fred I. Kent, director of Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan. In a public speech Banker Kent had blamed the Senate and the Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition for the...
The Senate tariff war came to a complete halt last week. Feeling fatigued and futile, the warriors voted a truce (adjournment) before beginning the long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the...
"Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are...