Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letting Congress know exactly what he wanted, for sending up sloppily drafted measures such as the Social Security Bill which had to be entirely rewritten in the House, for not making up his mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride harder, to put the whip to Congressional flanks...
...Washington. Just an hour before they assembled Chief Justice Hughes began to read the Supreme Court's sentence of death on NRA. But already miners and operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose...
...continue negotiations to avoid a strike. Last week Mr. Lewis and the Northern operators, who want price-fixing, ganged up. They outvoted the Southerners, 44-to-9, to suspend all negotiations, i.e. have a strike June 17. By this means they figured Congress would be bludgeoned into passing the Guffey bill. A committee of operators finally got busy revising the bill...
...remained for Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, who also heads the Steel Institute, to cover the whole field of steel antagonism toward the New Deal. He lashed out at the Banking Bill, the Public Utility Bill, the Social Security Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill, the 30-hour-week Bill. "It is about time we had a little old-fashioned economy, that we encouraged efficiency and thrift," cried the steelmaster who received a $1,600,000 bonus...
Even as Father Coughlin spoke the telegrams were flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...