Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another Presidential frown. Rebuked for insisting on a tax cut nearly double what the Administration considers safe, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, president of the U. S. Chamber, announced last fortnight that three-fourths of all Chambermen favor the U. S. assuming the entire cost of Mississippi flood control instead of 80% of construction costs and 90% of realty costs as recommended by President Coolidge (TIME, Dec. 5, Dec. 26). Last week President Coolidge said that while some of the U. S. Chamber's activities are "helpful", others are not. He said he understood that this latest "vote...
...flood control costs the flood region communities could bear without great hardships...
...total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by Chairman Reid of the Flood-Control Committee, calling for Federal payment of the entire program instead of only 80% as urged by the administration...
...than $600,000,000 during the last ten years. Last week one of the most important ones, the New York Joint Stock Land Bank, became more important by purchasing another important one, the New Jersey Joint Stock Land Bank of Newark. The New York bank in its turn is controlled by bankers from Cleveland, who also control the Ohio-Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank. Notable among the Cleveland men are Parmely W. Herrick (son of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and president of the Herrick Co., investment bankers), Samuel L. McCune (investment banker), James Arthur House (president, Guardian Trust Co.), Arthur...
...people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There is a heave of shoulders, deep breath control, the touch of hands on a familiar well-worn hammer handle...