Word: fess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the Republican National Committee, fuss-budgety little Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio went through last year's Congressional campaign assuring voters that the Depression was worldwide, that President Hoover was not to blame. Many a voter did not believe him, helped to reduce to paper-thinness the Republican majority in Congress. Since then Mr. Fess has had little to say about economic conditions...
...Conference followed White House conference again last week on unemployment. Senator Fess predicted that President Hoover would have a Relief Plan ready before Congress meets in December. Jouett Shouse, official mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, publicly demanded "more positive action and less theoretical investigation...
Keynoted Senator Simeon Davison Fess...
...Manhattan Lowell Fess, 35, son of bone-dry U. S. Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, appeared in magistrate's court, shielding his face with a straw hat, having passed the early morning hours in a lockup. He heard himself charged with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from...
...Republican leaders last week predicted that tax rates would not be raised on the eve of next year's national campaign for the presidency. All agreed that the Treasury should bridge itself over by short-term borrowings. Typical was the statement of Ohio's Senator Fess. chairman of the Republican National Committee: "The size of the deficit is shocking to me. . . . No [tax] action will be necessary for some time, however, because the Treasury's requirements may be met by short-time certificates which will be taken up like hot cakes, due to the country...