Word: coulter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exclusively a radio performer. He thundered properly, showing little evidence of what critics once called the "hookworm" manner of his Southern birth. The performance was the first of a series of "Living Dramas of the Bible" put on by Columbia Broadcasting System.* Conceived by Assistant Director of Broadcasts Douglas Coulter, produced by Max Wylie, the first Living Drama was a thoughtful, serene projection of the familiar troubles of Job. Among its actors were two MARCH OF TIME voices and Stefan, son of famed Pianist Artur Schnabel. The Job act was followed last Sunday by a less leisurely one detailing...
...Confirmed Henry Prather Fletcher, Thomas Walker Page, John Lee Coulter, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Lincoln Dixon and Edgar Brossard as U. S. Tariff Commissioners...
Last week the President's 90 days expired. He had not got his tariff lesson very well. He had been able to find and appoint only five of his six tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
Commissioner Coulter was chief economic adviser to the old Commission. Commissioners Page and Dennis had both served on earlier tariff boards. The question of why the President did not appoint bigger and better men to elevate the new Commission above the old, as he had promised, was answered by the fact that a score of distinguished economists and business experts had declined appointment for fear of personal abuse during confirmation by the Senate. Unappointed was the third Democratic commissioner. Democrats immediately charged President Hoover with "rank and inexcusable partisanship" in holding up this last appointment while a high-tariff Republican...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took his first public dig at a Hoover policy. In his daily syndicate article, Citizen Coolidge wrote: "The report that...