Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded as a vested right their power to set the price for the whole industry...
...Press . . ."-1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. A newspaper publishers' committee marched to Washington last week to thresh out with Recovery Administrator Johnson the contradiction which, they insisted, lay between the foregoing clauses and stood" in the way of adoption of a code by newspapers. The committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis, plump manager of the New York Herald Tribune, Amon Giles Carter, potent Texas Democrat and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, Charles R. Butler, president of the Inland Daily Press...
...guess." Time and again he answered, "I don't know. We will get that figure for you." or "You can get that from the records." Caustic comments about the quality of his memory did not move him. Yet at the end of four days' testimony the committeemen could get a good idea of how the Van Sweringens had acquired their railroad system, step by step from a "shoestring...
...five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection by Congressional committeemen. It might then be many weeks before summer thunderstorms over the Southwest would permit the Macon to cross the continent. However, canny Captain Alger Herman Dresel of the Macon was equally intent on getting his ship direct from Akron to the Pacific without delay...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...