Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works just as hard to put into effect the Roosevelt domestic allotment as he did for his own equalization fee. and doubtless gets wry satisfaction when delegations of lobbyists wait...
...clamor. "'I am unexcited and intend to remain so," President Roosevelt, up from a sick bed, told callers who asked him what he proposed to do about the currency. But by the end of the week he had begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They got into the White House only on the promise that they would hush their inflation talk and stick to cotton. Day after their visit the President announced that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration would lend planters...
Nearly 20 years ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. was uncomfortably quizzed and criticized by Congressmen about the labor policies of his Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. On Ivy Lee's advice he later traveled all the way to Colorado to placate public opinion and the company's troublesome miners. Since then the Rockefellers have tried to put good men in charge, keep their own hands off. Yet labor troubles and ups & downs in business have more than once given the Rockefellers cause to regret their Colorado investment. Last week Colorado Fuel & Iron gave the Rockefellers one more cause...
...Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
...Republican Congressmen; by 18 runs to 16 the annual inter-party House of Representatives baseball game: in Griffith's Stadium, Washington, D. C. The Democrats wore the Washington Senators' white "home" uniforms, the Republicans their grey "road" uniforms. Florida's Caldwell, pitching for the Democrats (in Walter Johnson's famed No. 12 suit), blew up in the seventh inning when his team was four runs ahead. New Jersey's Republican Hartley knocked a homerun...