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...Ezra Brainerd Jr., onetime Vermont boy who has made good in Muskogee, Okla., as a lawyer and banker, was nominated by President Coolidge for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The "Senate had previously refused to confirm Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania, the President's original choice for this post...
...Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George Eastman, kodaks; Harvey S. Firestone, tires; Will H. Hays, cinemastar; John W. O'Leary, banker and president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, owner of the Saturday Evening Post and many another publication; Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times; Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor- and other men and many a lady of fashion...
...Coatroom talk is occasionally significant. Last week significance was attached to unofficial opinions that so far as the President's equanimity may be disturbed, it has been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...
...Voted down, after a three-day fight, the Presidential appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission. (Twice previously it had approved him as an Ambassador, first to Spain, later to Japan? TIME...
...Heard that the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee had voted unfavorably, 8 to 6, on the appointment of Cyrus E. Woods (TiME, Jan. 3) ; had exonerated Senator-elect Brookhart of charges of being the paid lobbyist of Mr. Woods...