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...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...
...Fess in High. Some of the public effect of this G. O. P. motion to adjourn politics was spoiled by the behavior of little Simeon Davison Fess, national G. O. P. chairman. He rushed to the White House to say good-bye to President Hoover. He came out declaring: "The time has come when we must let the country know. . . . In other words, we are going into high gear...
...Pittsburgher. With shoulders humped, intense voice rasping, Senator Reed hammered away. But as he expected, his words changed not a single ballot. By the impressive vote of 72-10-12 the Senate passed H. R. 17054. Not one Democrat voted against it. The twelve anti-Bonus Republicans were: Borah, Fess, Goff, Hastings, Hebert, Metcalf, Morrow, Moses, Phipps, Reed, Smoot, Walcott...
...repercussion among the Republicans. The Senate Campaigns Fund Committee had discovered that Executive Director Robert Hendry Lucas of the Republican National Committee had sent propaganda into Nebraska in October advocating the defeat of Republican Senator George William Norris. In spite of the fact that Chairman Simeon D. Fess had promised support for all Republican candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout...
...other matters the Republican chiefs may have discussed were not made public. But observers could guess that Chairman Fess had absented himself from the meeting in case his colleagues wanted to discuss his successor...