Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black inquiry came the first serious move to centralize regulation of aviation. Silvery Nevadan Pat McCarran wrote a Senate bill to place full control of the industry with the I.C.C. Year later, in the House, California's Clarence Lea offered a bill to create an independent Government bureau for aviation. Until the last Congress, neither bill had been able to make much headway. Both the Post Office Department and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly...
This year, storm clouds again began to gather. With a new Depression, Franklin Roosevelt took to grousing about the rigidity of steel prices. The Federal Trade Commission launched an attack on the basing-point system used by the cement industry (TIME, April 25). Then came the Wheeler-Lea Act which had a minor clause making all unchallenged past orders of the FTC automatically effective unless the respondents filed an appeal before May 21. Recalling that FTC's order ending "Pittsburgh Plus" had never been challenged, since the company consented to the action, Big Steel hastened to file an appeal...
...House: ¶ Passed the Copeland-Lea Bill extending the scope of the Pure Food & Drug Act to include cosmetics, therapeutic devices, several drugs which now escape Federal regulation; sent it to conference to be adjusted with the stronger Senate bill passed last year. ¶ Approved the conference report on the $350,000,000 Federal Aid Road Bill; sent to to the White House...
...queues at the 500 parimutuel windows scattered around the Downs last week, amateur handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William...
...famed for his modernization of that big line, his benevolent relations with employes. The others who attended were ICC Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President Henry Bruere of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Draper, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas and Farm Security Administrator...