Word: esch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Smith of South Carolina was really elected by the radical group. Their backing of him was largely due to the fact that he opposed the rate-making section (Section 15-A) of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. That effort won the commendation of LaFollette. Otherwise Senator Smith is not known as especially radical. His place in the Senate, which he has held since 1908, came about largely from his extensive part in organizing the Southern Cotton Association. He is a cotton Senator, a fighter of the boll weevil. Despite his husky voice, he is comparatively mild mannered...
...engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...feel responsibility for the organization of the Senate, this contention over the position of chairman for the Committee on Interstate Commerce is largely uncalled for. Should the Progressives here stand against the dominance of committee rule they would be justified: the work of this committee is not partisan; the Esch-Cummins law, the heart of the controversy, was essentially not partisan, and the chairman wields but one vote--But Progressivism, in this instance, exalts committee rule...
...Cummins is not intrenched beyond possibility of attack in his post, which, since Mr. Coolidge became President, carries the Vice Presidential salary of $12,000. At any time a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans can unseat him. He is co-author of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act which is anathema to the La Follette group...
Railways. The insurgents will fight for drastic revision or repeal of the Esch-Cummins Act. The regular Republicans, if they follow the leadership of Senator Cummins, will favor compulsory consolidation of the railways in a period of years...