Word: fess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meeting. In Washington at the call of Chairman Fess assembled the Republican National Committee to select next year's convention city. A likely choice: Chicago, with a $125,000 cash...
...dolefully declared Senator Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee. "Everyone knows we must raise more money." Senator Watson, Republican leader, was almost tearful when he announced: "Much as I am personally sorry for it, it seems that some form of tax legislation will be necessary." Senator Fess, G. O. P. chairman,* declared: "The budget must be balanced even if we are compelled to take drastic measures such as was done in England." Only die-hard dissenter among important Republicans was ultra-conservative Congressman Hawley, chairman of the last House Ways & Means Committee. Moaned...
...Plan. Last week President Hoover, close to whose heart are the U. S. Home & Family, moved in a large way to supply the Yellow Springs banker with $6,000 to lend Senator Fess, to ease the strain on the three building & loan associations sufficiently for the G. 0. P. chairman to withdraw his savings, to put jobless men to work on a new Fess home, and on perhaps 200,000 other homes. The President's purpose was to thaw out the frozen mortgage market on small homes so that people could start new building and thereby contribute...
...Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept. 16, 1929, Oct. 27, 1930), how Vice President Curtis' son Harry had embarrassed his father by setting...
...help 600 small liberal arts colleges in the U. S., President Hoover became a committee-member last September of the Liberal Arts College Movement, to which 235 small colleges belong (TIME, Sept. 14). At the behest of Senator Simeon Davison Fess, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he agreed to join in a radio appeal for the group. Last week, along with Speechmaker John Huston Finley of the New York Times, Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council of Education and President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College, Chairman...