Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposed to the Eccles bill, should change it, his Senate subcommittee on Banking & Currency was packed with friends of the New Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles' friends to compromise, bit by bit got the bill changed...
Last week President Roosevelt came down from principle to practice on his social tax program. To his air-cooled White House office he called Chairman Robert L. Doughton, a potent handful of Ways & Means Committeemen and several tax experts to face with him the fact that sky-high rates on a few very rich men and a few very large estates would produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled...
With Rudy Vallee and his 38-piece ensemble striking the key note in a triumphal rendering of the "Stein Song," the annual Freshman Smoker took place in the Union last night under the direction of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr, and his 1938 committeemen...
When, after two hours and 20 minutes of direct testimony. General Johnson had finished, the Senate committeemen were too exhausted to question him in detail...
Waiting for Lefty, whose locale is closer to home, is another matter entirely. Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious...