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Washington, March 7--Legislation desired by the United Aircraft and Transport Co. was rushed through the Senate in 1930 after the air line hired Lehr Fess, lawyer son of Simeon Fess. Republican, Ohio, to "expedite" it, Col. Paul H. Henderson, vice president of the company testified today...
...result of the cross-fire of accusation and denial was that smart little Hugo LaFayette Black's Senate investigating committee at last got onetime Postmaster General Brown to testify before it, no holds barred. Less than a week after he had written his fellow Ohioan, Senator Simeon D. Fess, that he would face the committee "at the earliest date convenient" and that "anything I may say may be used against me in any court in the land," Walter Brown walked into the committee's hearing room in the Senate Office Building...
Money having become the paramount issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator...
...votes, a majority of 19. after Dec. 5. Never more than 26 sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung to Repeal if not to beer include Arkansas' Robinson, Mississippi's Harrison, Ohio's Fess, Georgia's George, Arizona's Ashurst, Washington's Dill, Michigan's Vandenberg, Tennessee's McKellar. Republican Floor Leader Watson last week declared he was for 2.75% beer because "it doesn't mean anything?it's only slop...
...Baltimore. For the same journey Maryland's Goldsborough draws $16 from the public treasury, pockets $11.62. New York's Wagner collects $96 for a trip which costs ordinary citizens only $23.78. Transportation home & back costs Idaho's Borah $239.56 for which the Senate pays him $1,058.80. Ohio's Fess profits $198.42 for each session; Washington's Jones $1,074.22. Representatives enjoy the same generous allowance for travel which costs the Government a total of $226,000 for each session...