Word: hosford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relaunched its stalled drive to establish minimum coal prices. Last December the Bituminous Coal Commission established a set of minima, but after coalmen brought suit, charging the Commission's methods were too dictatorial, these minima were shelved, B. C. C. Chairman Charles Franklin Hosford Jr. resigned and there was a general collapse of the coal price structure (TIME, Dec. 27, et seq.). Since then the Commission has wearily begun all over again, this time under the guidance of Percy Tetlow. Last week, with data for new minima almost complete and with Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. of Arkansas filing...
...least once last year did dictatorial Chairman Charles Franklin Hosford Jr. of the National Bituminous Coal Commission submit his resignation to President Roosevelt after the commission had been rent by squabbles over patronage, office furniture, other trivia connected with its primary purpose of setting up minimum prices for soft coal. Franklin Roosevelt refused to accept it. Last week, however, when Chairman Hosford once more submitted his resignation, Franklin Roosevelt did accept it. The reason was clear-the Coal Commission has made an unholy botch...
Washington has been expecting Mr. Hosford's exit ever since his commission was forced to drop its entire schedule of minima when courts found they had been prepared without requisite public hearings (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). However, Franklin Roosevelt last week asked Chairman Hosford to remain on duty until April 30, thus provoked an uproar. Gloating over Mr. Hosford's downfall, the minority group in the commission, which has long opposed him, called him into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph...
...delight to Washington gossips last year were the bickerings of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, many of them attributable to the vigorous, Napoleonic methods of its chairman, 50-year-old Charles Hosford Jr. At year's end, however, the commission finally managed the herculean job of fixing 30,000 minimum prices for soft coal produced east of the Mississippi (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week it became apparent that the commission, in its haste, had erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal...
...present B. C. C. is headed by Charles Franklin Hosford Jr., a 50-year-old Princeton graduate who went on to Harvard Law School, practiced in Butler, Pa. until 1923 when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this...