Word: committeees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One morning last week Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the...
With rates finished, the Finance Committee Republicans last week wrote the administrative features of the new bill. Chief changes:
Law. For a score of years U. S. equity law has hobbled Labor organization, has hampered its strike activities. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota offered a bill to revolutionize the use of injunctions. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it as unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana...
Felix M. Warburg gave $500,000 toward a fund to establish the finance corporation, was elected head of the administrative committee. The corporation, he said "must be conducted . . . by a board which tries its best for the shareholders. The business must be conducted calmly, without hysterics or indiscretion."
Much has he traveled, many are the famed people he has met. In Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an...